See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26044852
The UN has demanded that the Vatican "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers.
The UN watchdog for children's rights denounced the Holy See
for adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of
children....
In its report, the UN Committee on the
Rights of the Child (CRC) said the Holy See should open its files on
members of the clergy who "concealed their crimes" so that they can be
held accountable.
The committee said it was gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed.
In the report, the committee expressed its "deepest concern
about child sexual abuse committed by members of the Catholic churches
who operate under the authority of the Holy See, with clerics having
been involved in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children
worldwide".
It also lambasted the "practice of offenders' mobility",
referring to the transfer of child abusers from parish to parish within
countries, and sometimes abroad.
The committee said this practice places "children in many
countries at high risk of sexual abuse, as dozens of child sexual
offenders are reported to be still in contact with children".
Magdalene laundries
The UN report called on a commission created by Pope Francis
in December to investigate all cases of child sexual abuse "as well as
the conduct of the Catholic hierarchy in dealing with them".
Ireland's Magdalene laundries scandal was singled out by the
report as an example of how the Vatican had failed to provide justice
despite "slavery-like" conditions, including degrading treatment,
violence and sexual abuse.....
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