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The landmark report to be published Tuesday suggests an estimated 216,000 minors were abused between 1950 and the 2020; that number rises to an estimated 330,000 when including victims of abusers who were not clergy but had other links to the Church, such as Catholic schools and youth programs, according to Jean-Marc Sauvé, the president of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE) which authored the report.
Between 2,900 and 3,200 pedophile clergymen are estimated to have worked in the French Catholic Church since the 1950s, Sauvé said in advance of the report’s release.
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