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- Author(s): Smith, Cary Stacy
- Source:
Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2019. 2p.
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- Abstract:
The molestation of children entrusted to the care of Roman Catholic priests became a worldwide news story during the 1990’s and into the twenty-first century, as increasing numbers of victims came forward to describe their sexual abuse. The first stories originated in Boston, when the , but it was later revealed that similar abuses had occurred throughout the world. The most disturbing element of the emerging evidence was that the abuse had occurred over a long period of time.