The Italian Church presented its first report on the complaints received for alleged abuses and reported 86 cases reported between 2020 and 2021, although victims of sexual assault criticized that the letter only contemplated the last two years.
The report of the Italian Episcopal Conference presented this Thursday reports that the Church of the European country received 38 complaints in 2020 and 48 in 2021.
According to the detail, there were 24 complaints for “inappropriate behavior and language”, 21 for “touching”, 13 for “sexual nuisance”, 9 for “sexual relations” and 4 for “pornography”, among others.
The report was criticized by the founder of the association “Rete L’Abuso” Y victim of abuse, Francesco Zanardi, who through a statement He described the writing as “mere propaganda for the dioceses, useful for the church.”
According to the report that takes into account the information collected by the 30 reception centers throughout the peninsula, about 53% of the complaints It refers to “recent or current” facts; while almost 47% correspond to “cases from the past”.
More than half of the people who denounced (54.7 percent) are womenwhile in an elaborate profile among 68 denounced, it locates men of between 40 and 60 years old as the suspects in more than half of the cases.
Zanardi, anyway, c.He considered the report “dangerous for the victims, as well as useless.”
After the transmission of the report to the Ecclesiastical Authority by the 30 listening centers, “among the actions put in place, the ‘disciplinary measures’ predominate, followed by the ‘prior investigation’ and the ‘transmission to the Department for the Doctrine of la Fe'”, the Vatican body in charge of investigating the abuses of the ecclesiastics.
