カトリック教会は、教会関係者の未成年に対する性的虐待の責任を負わずに責任逃れに
“El Vaticano sigue sin asumir su responsabilidad en los abusos sexuales”
Víctimas mexicanas, estadounidenses y europeas celebran la comparecencia histórica de la Santa Sede ante la ONU pero critican las respuestas "evasivas" del portavoz de Roma
El Vaticano esquiva las preguntas de la ONU sobre abusos a niños
Víctimas mexicanas de abusos sexuales acusan al Vaticano de crímenes de Estado
Inés Santaeulalia México 16 ENE 2014 - 21:26 CET
"The Vatican still does not take responsibility for sexual abuse"
Mexican, American and European victims celebrate the historic appearance of the Holy See to the UN but criticize the "evasive" answers spokesman Rome
The Vatican dodges questions UN child abuse
Mexican abuse victims accuse the Vatican of state crimes
Inés Santaeulalia Mexico 16 ENE 2014 - 21:26 CET
The taste left by the appearance of the Holy See to the United Nations is bittersweet for victims of sexual abuse by religious . Affected celebrate the historic nature of the event , which for the first time the Vatican was questioned by an international agency on cases of pedophilia within the Church, but criticized the " vague and evasive " responses representative of Rome in Geneva , Archbishop Silvano Tomasi . The Vatican acknowledged Thursday that "there are abusers among the clergy ," but " still take responsibility as an institution , which is the major outstanding account with the victims ," says former priest Alberto Mexican phone Athié once the appearance .
From early morning , members of organizations of victims of abuse worldwide tried to warm up the crowd with a protest in front of the headquarters of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN in Geneva , but the police prevented any kind of demonstration. " We got banners with some photos of victims , but the protest did not last more than five minutes. Ask only justice and covering up cases of pedophilia we stop ," says Fatima Moneta, a member of the Catholic Mexican organization for the Right to Decide .
After the meeting, spokespersons of organizations of victims of the United States, Mexico and Spain agreed to qualify as "historic " day and applauded the work of committee members , that over eight hours long meeting did direct questions and did not hesitate to cross-examine when the answers were not clear . "Even before the evasive showed irritability , there was a constant tension in the room ," says Athié . "Today the Committee members were our voice and did an excellent manner ," he said in a press conference Megan Peterson, victim of rape by a priest in the U.S. when he was 14 .
The U.S. organization SNAP presented in Geneva over 15,000 documented cases of abuse
The Vatican spokesman , acknowledged that there had been cases of pedophile priests " as there are in every profession ," he tried to explain that sexual abuse is a case of the past and that there are already guidelines that will not happen again . " They do not want accountability and transparency. We seriously wonder if the Holy See should be considered a UN Member State if it is unable to guarantee the rights of children ," said Moneta .
Throughout the morning many of the Committee's questions were left unanswered. The spokesperson of Rome refused to give specific information on the number and the name of religious pedophiles under the guise of "privacy" of victims and wielded throughout questioning the lack of case law Vatican in abuse cases that have occurred worldwide . Same as already argued months before writing.
The former priest and spokesman of the Mexican victims , Alberto Athié . / SAUL RUIZ
"It is false to say that the jurisdiction of the Holy See does not require that each local church does what corresponds to his conscience. This contradicts canon law which holds that no obligation to fulfill the mandates of the Pope" , defends Athié .
The struggle of the victims spent years trying to Vatican responsibility in perpetuating clears in time of cases of sexual abuse by its policy of silencing the facts and " protect" the abusers to not bring them to justice or barging Church . " Asked [ Archbishop Tomasi ] if there was imposition of silence on abuse cases and said no. It is false ," criticizes the Mexican former priest .
There is evidence that , at least since the 60s , the Holy See has defined a procedure for resolving cases of pedophilia . A statement of 1962 forced to silence all members of the Church to allegations of sexual abuse under penalty of excommunication , and although the document was modified over the years, the essence of keeping the cases secret was kept even in the 2001 revision .
Until Thursday , no international organization had dared to question the Holy See, which has been forced to appear in Geneva since 1990 as a signatory State to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The treaty obliges present quinquennial reports on compliance with the items in each country, but only the Holy See presented a first report in 1995 and returned to do another until 2011, when the pedophilia scandals had beaten against the institution .
The Committee took last July the late delivery of the report , which makes no mention of the abuse - to quote the Church and seek , among other things, " details of all cases of sexual abuse by clerics , monks and nuns or made known to the Holy See. " The Vatican , in its written response last December , as Thursday in person , did not cite specific cases and argued that the investigation of the facts is for the countries in which the crimes are committed .
Organizations American , Mexican and European victims made to the Committee in Geneva reports with their complaints and documented numerous cases of pedophilia . The U.S. organization SNAP ( Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ) accredited over 15,000 individual cases and from Mexico , who presented more than 200 individual incidents , 169 organizations and individuals have requested that the case be treated as a state crime and the Vatican ends up being judged by the United Nations.
Will have to wait until later this month for recommendations issued by the Committee on the Rights of the Child after evaluating responses Tomasi, but Mexican associations warn that the road has only just started. " On Thursday we have just opened the first door ," warns Athié .
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