Italian Catholic Church reports higher number of abuse cases in 2023 and 2024

The data are still incomplete, but the number of people who reported alleged abuse has increased.

They are 64 males, 51 females. About half occurred in the parish (ANSA)

Italian Catholic Church reports higher number of abuse cases in 2023 and 2024

These occurred mostly at the hands of priests. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Italian Catholic Church reports higher number of abuse cases in 2023-2024

Italy’s Catholic Church on Wednesday reported a rise in the number of suspected victims of abuse, mostly at the hands of priests, with 115 cases over the course of 2023-2024.The figure, which includes as many as 21 children under 10 and 35 “vulnerable adults,” compares with 89 alleged victims reported for 2020-2021 and 54 for the year 2022. The suspected cases were linked to 67 alleged perpetrators, including 44 priests, 15 members of religious o

According to a report made public on Wednesday 28 May, 69 cases of assaults on minors or vulnerable adults were recorded in the Italian dioceses in 2023 and 2024. An increasing number compared to 2022. The conference of the bishops of Italy sees there "the emergence of facts that remained hidden in the past".

The Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) recognizes 247 victims of abuse by adding up the cases of its three anti-abuse reports, the third edition of which is