“Reporting abuse church was open long enough ‘- Parool.nl

"Reporting abuse church was open long enough '- Parool.nl

13-09-14 12:28 PM – Source: Reuters

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Women who have been abused by clergy demands in summary proceedings against the Roman Catholic church in the Netherlands that the abuse hotline opens again in their youth. Report that the Conference of Bishops (BC) and the Dutch Religious Conference (KNR). The case will be next Thursday in Utrecht.

The Foundation Women Platform Religious Child Abuse (VPKK) would still be able to submit to sexual abuse complaints, but the church hotline for that is closed for business that are barred and counter since July 1, 2014 deceased persons. Attempt that VPKK has taken to enter into conversation with church representatives in the last two months were in vain, says VPKK President Annemie Knibbe.

The church organizations do not agree that the hotline is closed too early. “The end date was announced more than 6 months in advance, which is a reasonable time”, the bodies in a joint press release. Women are women, according to the platform because of feelings of shame take longer than men to tell.

The complaints of abuse in the Catholic Church closed in July, after 4 years, its doors their story. It can now only complaints are filed for non-barred affairs and surviving perpetrators. 1309 men and 276 women volunteered.