Sue Cox, a member of the STOP CHURCH CHILD ABUSE working party is to apply more pressure to the Catholic Church this week by addressing a UN committee to criticise failures by the Vatican to safeguard children. The UN convention on the Rights of the Child will hear that the Vatican has failed to meet [...]
David Greenwood of the STOP CHURCH CHILD ABUSE campaign, two lawyers from Germany and the US Centre for Constitutional Rights petitioned the International criminal court in 2011 to indict Ratzinger and others at the Vatican for knowingly failing to prevent priests from abusing children. The International Criminal Court has now rejected the request to investigate former Pope Benedict XVI [...]
STOP CHURCH CHILD ABUSE! (A call for a Public Inquiry into abuse of children and vulnerable adults by Clergy in England and Wales.) PRESS RELEASE – 17th June 2013 CHURCH OF ENGLAND SET TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT’S FAILINGS OVER CHILD ABUSE, TO OFFER APOLOGIES, AND PROVIDE A BETTER RESPONSE TO SURVIVORS. [...]