A BBC News report, published 10 September 2010, on the 200-page report released that day by the Belgian Catholic Church's own commission, chaired by child psychiatrist Peter Adriaenssens, documenting some 300 cases of clergy sexual abuse from 507 people who came forward, abuse found in almost every diocese and Church-run boarding school, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s, and at least 13 victims' suicides linked to the abuse.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a national broadcaster's contemporaneous account of the commission's own report on the day of its release, naming the chair, the case and witness counts and the suicide figure, corroborated by CBS News's independent same-day coverage. NotesTier 2: the source for the 300-case count, the almost-every-diocese finding and the 13 confirmed suicides, cross checked against CBS News's independent reporting on the same report.
Citation
PublisherBBC News
Publication Year2010
URLhttps://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2010/09_10/2010_09_10_BBCNews_BelgiumChurch.htm
Source Typenews
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 connected. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 2 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
Well-attested
12Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
Connected
2Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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