Former Catholic priest on trial over alleged sex abuse of dozens of boy scouts

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A French former priest accused of sexually abusing some 75 boys when he worked as their scout chaplain is on trial in Lyon, France's worst clergy abuse drama to reach court so far. 9News

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"Everything that happened has shaken me up a lot and made me think. I am not trying to justify myself since I am wrong. Let me finish the year normally." Alexandre Hezez, who said he had been abused as a child by Preynat, went public as an adult and asked church hierarchy why he was still in office. Other victims came forward too, one by one.

In defrocking him, the church said in a statement: "In view of the facts and their recurrence, the large number of victims, the fact that Father Bernard Preynat abused the authority conferred on him by his position within the Scout group that he had founded, the court decided to apply the maximum penalty, namely the dismissal from the clerical state."

 

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Yet another filthy rock spider.

Nothing new about the Catholic Church.... And they wonder why their numbers are dropping.... 🙄😠😡

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