The Catholic Church in Spain has collected the testimony of more than 900 victims of sexual abuse

Spain’s Catholic Church has collected the testimonies of more than 900 people who were sexually abused when they were minors, the institute said Thursday.^Eh June in a report titled “Shed Light.” Of the 927 victims whose testimonies could be gathered, 728 members of the church were blamed, according to Father José Gabriel Vera Beorleg, director of communications for the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE). “For Most Priests”.

63% of these priests are dead and 36% are still alive, the oldest cases date back to the 1940s. Among the victims, 82.62% are boys and 17.38% are girls. “One hundred and ninety-nine testimonies are considered for pastoral or judicial proceedings”Father Vera Beorlegi said.

A Spanish priest abused 80 minors in Bolivia

The Spanish daily count of 927 victims is far below the 1,957 recorded since 2018. El Pais, who created his own database. It is a newspaper El Pais which in late April revealed the case of the late Spanish priest Alfonso Pedrajas, whose diary revealed he abused more than 80 minors in Bolivia, where he arrived in the early 1970s.

The case led to at least eight complaints in Bolivia against Society of Jesus priests, including Mr Pedrajas and three other Spanish religious, Luis Maria Roma, Alejandro Mestre and Antonio Gausset, who are now dead. In March 2022, the Spanish Church announced that it had collected the testimony of 506 people.