ฝรั่งเศสพบหลักฐาน “บาทหลวงหื่น” กว่า 3,000 รูป ล่วงละเมิดเด็กในช่วงกว่า 70 ปี

ภาพประกอบ: Thousands of paedophiles have operated within the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of a panel investigating abuses by church members says. Jean-Marc Sauvé told French media that the commission had found evidence of 2,900 to 3,200 abusers – out of a total of 115,000 priests and other clerics. “That is a minimal estimate,” he added. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)

ภาพประกอบ: Commission members included doctors, historians, sociologists and theologians. More than 6,500 victims and witnesses were contacted over two and a half years. The final report is 2,500 pages long. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP)

ภาพประกอบ: Christopher Lamb, of the Roman Catholic publication The Tablet, told the BBC that abuse scandals had plunged the Church into “its greatest crisis in… 500 years”. Earlier this year Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s laws to explicitly criminalise sexual abuse, in its biggest overhaul of the criminal code for decades. The new rules make sex abuse, grooming minors, possessing child pornography and covering up abuse an offence under Canon Law. (Photo by Silvio AVILA / AFP)