The Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) has commissioned the law firm Cremades & Calvo Sotelo to carry out an independent audit of the reports of sexual abuse within the Church.
As detailed on Monday by the governing body of the bishops, the professional office will open an “independent channel” to receive complaints and will review the legal procedures “aimed at sanctioning criminal practices.”
It will also offer its collaboration to the authorities to help clarify the facts and establish a prevention system “that satisfies the social demands in this regard.”
This issue has again aroused controversy in Spain for a few weeks, when the writer Alejandro Palomas assured that he was raped by a religious teacher as a child and a student at a La Salle school in the province of Barcelona (northeast); other former students of the center also later denounced abuses.
The Socialist Party, which governs in coalition with the leftist United We Can, announced that it would propose to Parliament that it commission the Ombudsman to investigate the abuses together with a commission of experts.
Several bishops have stepped forward in recent days and encouraged victims of abuse in the Church to report, while advocating that cases of pederasty be investigated.
Spanish prosecutors reported 68 ongoing investigations into sexual abuse committed against minors in congregations, schools and other religious institutions. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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