The church had already promised to set up a fund to start making payouts next year, which will now be bolstered by selling real estate.
France’s first major study of sexual abuse of children in Catholic Church estimates that some 216,000 children were abused by priests, and the rest by other church figures such as scout leaders or camp counselors during 1950-2020.
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