Exhibit 484 ยท Commission report (summary)
Summary of the Final Report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE)
Over the greater part of the period studied by the CIASE, its observations show that the Church's attitude could be summarized as one of concealment, relativization or even denial, with only a very recent recognition, dating from 2015, and even then, unequally accepted by dioceses and religious institutions.
Commission set up at the request of the French bishops' and religious conferences. Estimates 216,000 child victims of clergy and religious (95 percent interval 165,000 to 270,000) from 1950 to 2020 from a survey of 28,010 adults, 330,000 including lay persons connected to the Church; estimates 2,900 to 3,200 clerical perpetrators from archives, about 3 percent as a minimum rate; places Church-related abuse beside rates in the family, schools and camps. Finds the Church's attitude was concealment, relativization or denial over most of the period.
- Source
- Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), France
- Date
- 5 October 2021
- Quoted from
- Summary, section III, p. 11
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.ciase.fr/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/CIASE-Summary-of-the-Final-Report-5-october-2021.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit