Spain's 報告(する)/憶測 on カトリック教徒 Church sex 乱用 見積(る)s 犠牲者s could number in hundreds of thousands

MADRID (AP) - Spain´s first 公式の/役人 調査(する) of sex 乱用 by clergy members or other people connected to the カトリック教徒 Church in the country 含むd a 調査する that 示すd that the number of 犠牲者s could run into hundreds of thousands.

The 調査する was part of a damning 報告(する)/憶測 by the office of Spain´s ombudsman, or "defensor del pueblo," に引き続いて an 18-month 独立した・無所属 調査 of 487 事例/患者s 伴う/関わるing 申し立てられた/疑わしい 犠牲者s who spoke with the ombudsman´s team.

Ombudsman ?ngel Gabilondo 非難するd the church´s 返答 to sex 乱用 スキャンダルs, 説 it had often been to 最小限に減らす if not 否定する the problem. He 現在のd the nearly 800-page 報告(する)/憶測 to the (衆議院の)議長 of the Spanish 議会´s lower house Friday and then to reporters.

"This is a necessary 報告(する)/憶測 to 答える/応じる to a 状況/情勢 of 苦しむing and loneliness that for years has remained, in one way or another, covered by an 不公平な silence," Gabilondo said in a 声明,

He 定評のある that the church had taken steps to 演説(する)/住所 both 乱用 by priests and 成果/努力s to cover up the スキャンダル, but said they were not enough.

含むd in the 報告(する)/憶測 were findings from a 調査する based on 8,000 valid phone and online 返答s. The 投票 said 1.13% of the Spanish adults questioned said they were 乱用d as children by either priests or lay members of the church, 含むing teachers at 宗教的な schools. Of those, 0.6% identified their abusers as clergy members.

Ombudsman Angel Gabilondo, right, delivers a report on the country's first independent probe into the abuse of minors within the Catholic Church to President of the Congress Francina Armengol, left, at the Spanish parliament in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. A survey released Friday indicates some 440,000 people may have been victims of sexual abuse by Catholic church clergy or lay people connected to the church in recent decades in Spain. The survey was part of a damning report by the Ombudsman's office following an 18-month independent investigation of 487 cases. The report was handed to Parliament. (Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via AP)

Ombudsman Angel Gabilondo, 権利, 配達するs a 報告(する)/憶測 on the country's first 独立した・無所属 調査(する) into the 乱用 of minors within the カトリック教徒 Church to 大統領 of the Cong ress Francina Armengol, left, at the Spanish 議会 in Madrid, Spain, Friday, Oct. 27, 2023. A 調査する 解放(する)d Friday 示すs some 440,000 people may have been 犠牲者s of 性の 乱用 by カトリック教徒 church clergy or lay people connected to the church in 最近の 10年間s in Spain. The 調査する was part of a damning 報告(する)/憶測 by the Ombudsman's office に引き続いて an 18-month 独立した・無所属 調査 of 487 事例/患者s. The 報告(する)/憶測 was 手渡すd to 議会. (Jesus Hellin/Europa 圧力(をかける) 経由で AP)

Given that Spain´s adult 全住民 stands の近くに to 39 million, that would mean some 440,000 minors could have been sexually 乱用d by Roman カトリック教徒 priests, members of a 宗教的な order and lay members of the church in 最近の 10年間s.

The 調査する 行為/行うd by GAD3, a 井戸/弁護士席-known opinion 世論調査員 in Spain, had a 利ざや of 見本ing error for all 回答者/被告s of 加える or minus 1.1 百分率 points.

The ombudsman's 調査 代表するs Spain´s first 公式の/役人 調査(する) of the child sex 乱用 problem that has 土台を崩すd the カトリック教徒 Church around the world, and the 見積(る) from the 調査する is the first time such a high number of possible 犠牲者s was identified in the country.

The 調査する, 行為/行うd by GAD3, a 井戸/弁護士席-known opinion 世論調査員 in Spain, had a 利ざや of 見本ing error for all 回答者/被告s of 加える or minus 1.1 百分率 points.

Ombudsman ?ngel Gabilondo did not extrapolate the 調査する findings into a count of possible 犠牲者s but said the 百分率s were in line with 類似の 報告(する)/憶測s in other European countries.

An investigative (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 in フラン, which has a 全住民 of nearly 68 million compared to Spain's 47.6 million, 概算の based on 調査するs two years ago that some 330,000 minors had been 乱用d by church 職員/兵員 over 70 years.

The 報告(する)/憶測 calls for a public event to 認める 犠牲者s, the 創造 of a 明言する/公表する 基金 to 支払う/賃金 補償(金) and for the カトリック教徒 Church to 供給する a way to help 犠牲者s in the 回復 過程 and introduce 改革(する)s to 妨げる 乱用 and 補償する 犠牲者s.

Spain´s 議会 投票(する)d in March 2022 to open the country's first 公式の/役人 調査 by the ombudsman into the extent of 性の 乱用 committed by priests and church 当局.

The 政府 was 軍隊d to 行為/法令/行動する after Spanish newspaper El Pais published 乱用 主張s 伴う/関わるing more than 1,200 犠牲者s, 刺激するing public 乱暴/暴力を加える.

事実上の/代理 総理大臣 Pedro S?nchez 述べるd the 報告(する)/憶測 as a "milestone" for Spain´s 僕主主義.

"Today we are a little better as a country, " S?nchez said Friday from Brussels. "Because a reality has been made known that everyone has known for many years, but which no one spoke of."

He said the 報告(する)/憶測 and its 推薦s would be 熟考する/考慮するd and 行為/法令/行動するd upon.

Spain's Stolen Childhood 乱用 生存者s´ group 共同製作するd with the ombudsman's office on the 報告(する)/憶測. Juan Cuatrecasas, a co-創立者 of the group, said the final 文書 was " 肯定的な" but it remained to be seen how 国会議員s 答える/応じる to the 推薦s.

He said the 報告(する)/憶測 covered a time period that between the 1960s up until 最近の years.

Miguel Hurtado, who was 代表するing an international group called Ending Clergy 乱用, called the 報告(する)/憶測 "disappointing" and inferior in its 範囲 and 結論s to ones produced in Australia or Ireland.

Hurtado said the only 効果的な model would be a truth (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限 with coercive investigative 力/強力にするs.

The Spanish Bishops' 会議/協議会 is scheduled to 会合,会う Monday to consider the ombudsman's 報告(する)/憶測.

A Madrid-based 法律 会社/堅い is 行為/行うing a 平行の 調査 ordered by the bishops´ 会議/協議会. Its findings are 推定する/予想するd to be 解放(する)d later this year.

Only a handful of countries have had 政府-始めるd or 議会の 調査s into clergy sex 乱用.

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Aritz Parra in Madrid and Nicole Winfield in Rome 与える/捧げるd to this 報告(する)/憶測.

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