US EditionInvestigation Into Rape Against Priests at French School
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Against the background of a large abuse scandal at a Catholic school in France, the judiciary has started investigations against a priest for rape. Born in 1963, the man rejected the allegations, the prosecution announced on Thursday evening in Pau in southern France. A former student had denounced the priest and accused him of having raped him as a teenager. Although in the meantime some 250 former students of the Bétharram school reported sexu…
New twist in the Betharram case: a second priest has just been charged with rape of a student. Until then, only two complaints had not fallen under the statute of limitations.
The Notre-Dame-de-Betharram case shakes the southwest with a new indictment for rape. Nearly 250 complaints, mostly prescribed, reveal decades of abuse in this institution.
A man was charged for "rape by someone with authority" in the Notre-Dame-de-Bétharram case. He was an ecclesiastical, who was placed "under judicial supervision", according to the prosecutor, who had requested his remand in custody. The private institution in the south-west is targeted by nearly 250 complaints. - Betharram case: a second man charged with rape (Police, justice and other facts).
According to the prosecution, the defendant had "never been heard" so far in the proceedings, opened two years ago.
Nearly 250 former students have filed complaints of sexual abuse, but very few procedures have been completed due to the statute of limitations.
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