Panel: Church Sex Abuse Victims ‘Just Tip of Iceberg’

Date: 12 April 2022 - 22:04

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LISBON, April 12 (Reuters) -- A commission investigating child sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Tuesday the nearly 300 testimonies of alleged victims it has collected so far were “just the tip of the iceberg”.

“There have been multiple cases of sexual abuse of children and teenagers in the past,” said the head of the commission, child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, explaining that more than half of the 290 testimonies indicate “many more victims”.