I would be more worried about robes.
"Belgium clergy abuse tied to suicides" by Associated Press | September 11, 2010
BRUSSELS — Hundreds of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as 2, a special commission said yesterday.
(Blog editor is speechless)
Professor Peter Adriaenssens, chairman of the commission, said the abuse in Belgium may have been even more rampant than the 200-page report suggests.
“Reality is worse than what we present here today because not everyone shares such things automatically in a first contact with the commission,’’ he told reporters.
Adriaenssens, a child psychiatrist who has worked with trauma victims for 23 years, said nothing had prepared him for the stories.
I don't know if I am, either.
“We don’t just talk about touching. We are talking about oral and anal abuse, forced masturbation, and mutual masturbation....,’’ Adriaenssens said.
Nope, not prepared for that.
Most of the abuse happened during the 1960s and 1970s, he said.
Yeah, so?
Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard of Belgium said he would react Monday to the report. The Vatican had no immediate comment....
--more--""Ousted bishop stays in hiding amid ire
BRUSSELS — The former Belgian bishop who resigned in April after admitting he sexually abused a nephew for years is in hiding to assess his future, despite calls for him to leave the church immediately. Roger Vangheluwe said he would leave an abbey in Bruges, where he has been staying."
