March 11, 2010
Dutch Church Gets 350 Child Sex Abuse Complaints
THE HAGUE -- More than 300 people have lodged complaints of sexual abuse by priests, the Dutch Catholic church said Wednesday, after ordering a probe into alleged child sex cases. Since the start of this month "there have been 350 complaints," of cases spanning from the 1950s to the 1970s, church spokesman Pieter Kohnen told AFP, adding that "the majority come from boarding schools across the country." The complaints were received by an episcopal panel set up by the church in 1995 to help victims of sexual abuse by the clergy.Click Here For The Full Story......