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A month ago, the Sauvé report was published, revealing the figure of 330,000 pedophile crimes within the Church since 1950. This Tuesday, November 2, the bishops of France met in Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées) to discuss the answers to give.
End sexual abuse in the Church. After the shock of the Sauvé report a month ago, the bishops must provide answers. Their assembly in Lourdes (Hautes-Pyrénées), is particularly scrutinized. “There is a weight, an important responsibility. There is a huge expectation on the part of victims and society“, recognizes Monsignor Luc Crepy, Bishop of Versailles in charge of the fight against abuses in the Church.
A week of work behind closed doors awaits them. Handpicked victims will be received on Friday, November 5. The organization is controversial, so that other victims came on Tuesday to make their demands heard. Raped several times, from the age of 6 to 11, by a priest who is a member of her family, Marie-Claire Silvestre expects nothing from the Church. “At ten I knew if I spoke no one was going to believe me“, explains the author of the book My path, that of silence.
If she believes she has suffered prejudice, Marie-Claire Silvestre rejects the idea of compensation fed by donations from the faithful. “It is the Church which must pay and this indemnity must be individual “, she believes. The form of these indemnities is precisely at the heart of the discussions of the bishops. Their consultation which will end with a vote on Monday, November 8.