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# Child abuse scandals faced by Roman Catholic Church
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## The Roman Catholic Church has been hit by a series of allegations of child
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sexual abuse scandals in recent years. Here is is a timeline of the biggest
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scandals.
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4:42PM GMT 12 Mar 2010
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- In the United States, the church has paid out millions of dollars to
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compensate victims and also to head off lawsuits.
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In 2002, Bernard Law, one of the top US cardinals, was forced to resign as
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archbishop of Boston over accusations that he had failed to denounce
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paedophile priests.
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In 2004 it was estimated that some 4,400 priests had engaged in sexual abuse
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of minors in the country between 1950 and 2002, and that the abuse had
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affected some 11,000 children.
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- Ireland, one of the most staunchly Catholic countries in Europe, has seen a
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series of crises, leading Pope Benedict XVI to publicly rebuke its bishops
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last month for a "breakdown of trust".
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Among many cases, one priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children,
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while another said he had abused minors regularly over 25 years.
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## Related Articles
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* [Paedophile raid on Catholic HQ][1]
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24 Jun 2010
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* [Vienna Choir sex abuse claim][2]
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12 Mar 2010
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* [Archbishop of Westminster on alleged child abuse in the Catholic
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church][3]
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16 Mar 2010
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A total of 14,500 Irish children are reported to have been victims of abuse by
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clergy.
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- In Germany Church child abuse scandals have recently emerged in 19 of the
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country's 27 dioceses. They have included the revelation that two priests
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abused pupils in a Jesuit school in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and
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allegations that abuse occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, and possibly later, in
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a school attached to a cathedral in Regensburg where the brother of the
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current pope was choir master.
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- Austria has seen a series of scandals, one including years of abuse by a
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priest in a Salzburg monastery. Accusations of sexual harassment led to the
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resignation of Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer as archbishop of Vienna in 1995.
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- In Australia, Pope Benedict XVI met and apologised to victims of sexual
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abuse when he paid a visit last July.
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Scandals included sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s in a Catholic school in
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the town of Bathurst, to the west of Sydney.
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Among other countries hit by Church sex abuse scandals are: Poland, the
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Netherlands, Spain, France, Canada, Mexico and Senegal.
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