In a first for Spain, Jesuits admit to decades of sex abuse
MADRID – The first comprehensive internal inquiry on sex abuse allegations by a religious order in Spain has identified 81 children and 37 adult victims by 96 Jesuits since the late 1920s, a much higher number than the cases that had so far been publicly known.Associations of victims are welcoming the disclosure, but they see it falling short since the names of perpetrators or those who covered up the abuses weren't disclosed.
They also want the Jesuits' inquiry to lead to proper criminal cases against the few abusers that are still alive and a detailed plan to compensate their victims.“It's a timid measure that goes in the right direction, but that it falls too short,” Miguel Hurtado, a spokesman with the Stolen Childhood Association, told.
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