500 more Catholic clergy accused of sexually abusing minors

The Vatican continues to be rocked with controversy with 500 more clergymen in illinois, USA accused of sexually abusing minors.

Illinois’s attorney general has issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in the US state have not released the names of at least 500 clergy accused of sexually abusing children.

According to the office of Lisa Madigan, the attorney general, the church’s six archdioceses have done a woefully inadequate job of investigating allegations, while the dioceses has disclosed 45 more names of those credibly accused, the total number of names disclosed is only 185.

“By choosing not to thoroughly investigate allegations, the Catholic Church has failed in its moral obligation to provide survivors, parishioners and the public a complete and accurate accounting of all sexually inappropriate behavior involving priests in Illinois,” Madigan said in a statement.

Read also: French priest, retired bishop convicted for sexually abusing multiple minors

“The failure to investigate also means that the Catholic Church has never made an effort to determine whether the conduct of the accused priests was ignored or covered up by superiors.”

The report is coming a month after a French priest, Pierre de Castelet, and a retired bishop, Andre Fort were both convicted by a court in France for sexually abusing multiple children.

Reports say Pierre was sentenced to two years in prison, while his former bishop has been given a suspended sentence of eight months for failing to report the crimes.

The ruling according to court officials forbids Pierre from working as a priest or meeting with minors, even as the three victims were awarded 16,000 euros ($18,245) each in damages.

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