This is a Dutch video on Cardinal Simonis and sexual abuse.
From DutchNews.nl:
Catholic bishop accused of perjury over abuse claims
Wednesday 04 January 2012
A man who claims to have been sexually abused as a child by a Catholic priest has made a formal complaint against cardinal Ad Simonis for perjury, Trouw reports on Wednesday afternoon.
The man accuses the cardinal of lying when he told a court hearing in Middelburg he did not know that children were being abused by church officials.
‘I am convinced that Simonis knew about the abuse of children but did not say anything during the hearing. He also knew about the abuse at the time it was taking place,’ the man told local news website Breda Dichtbij.
A recent church commission into the sexual abuse scandal concluded that church officials, bishops and lay people were aware of what was going on but failed to take action to protect children.
The commission was set up by the Catholic church in March 2010 after the sexual abuse scandal broke in the Netherlands and hundreds of victims came forward. Over 2,000 people have now registered their abuse with the authorities and a number of cases will be taken to court.
The police have confirmed a complaint has been made, Trouw said.
Canada: Disgraced Catholic Bishop Raymond Lahey has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for child pornography-related charges: here.
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Paedophile priest appears in court
IRELAND: A defrocked Irish priest who was extradited from Brazil with British help has appeared in a Dublin court charged with 55 counts of sexually abusing 18 children.
The judge ordered 72-year-old Peter Kennedy to be held without bail today in Dublin’s Cloverhill Prison until his next court appearance on February 8.
Mr Kennedy fled to England in 2002 after his accusers told police he had molested them between 1968 and 1984.
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/114597
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