PARIS — The Catholic Church has been shaken by a string of child sex abuse scandals.
In France on Tuesday, the head of an independent enquiry investigating church child abuse said there might have been up to 10,000 victims since 1950.
Here are some high-profile cases around the world:
United States
In February 2019 Pope Francis defrocked a former cardinal in a first for the Roman Catholic church over accusations American Theodore McCarrick, 88, sexually assaulted a teenager 50 years ago.
A grand jury investigation into dioceses in Pennsylvania published in 2018 threw light on sexual assault, systematically covered up by the Church by “over three hundred predator priests”…
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