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19 December 2017

Dutch Catholic church sexual abuse bill soars as hotline closes down

In total, 3,712 people have reported being victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic church to a special hotline set up in 2010 and the cost of dealing with the eight-year scandal could be as much as €60m. Of all the reported cases to the hotline, 2,062 became official complaints and 1,002 cases were declared justified. Several hundred were not accepted because of a lack of supporting evidence, the final report from hotline officials said.

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/12/dutch-catholic-church-sexual-abuse-bill-soars-as-hotline-closes-down/