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Awful truth: Child sex abuse in the Catholic Church

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St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican.  PHOTO | FILE | AFP

By  AFP

The Catholic Church has been repeatedly rocked by child sex abuse scandals over the last three decades.

An independent inquiry on Tuesday found there were 216,000 victims of French clergy between 1950 and 2020.

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