French report: 330,000 children victims of church sex abuse

The caput of France’s Catholic bishops league is asking forgiveness from the estimated 330,000 victims of kid enactment maltreatment by the religion recovered successful a groundbreaking report.

The study was released Tuesday aft extended probe successful France’s archetypal large reckoning with the issue.

The President of the Conference of Bishops of France, Eric de Moulins-Beaufort, said Tuesday “we are appalled” astatine the conclusions of the study and the numbers of victims.

“Their voices are shaking us, their numbers afflict us,” helium said.

The committee that compiled the study urged compensation for victims and beardown enactment from the church.