Torture Committee Inquiry Follows Scathing Rebuke by Committee on Rights of the Child
Geneva—(ENEWSPF)—May 5, 2014. Today, the Vatican was summoned to appear before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to report on its record in preventing, punishing and redressing torture, which necessarily included its record addressing widespread sexual violence within the Catholic Church. Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and their attorneys from the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights…
