Sex abuse victims ask International Criminal Court to prosecute pope

[trotsky]

Victims of abuse by Catholic priests asked the International Criminal Court to charge Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials with crimes against humanity, a victims' group announced Tuesday.

The pope and other church leaders "tolerate and enable the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes throughout the world," the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and the Center for Constitutional Rights said in a joint statement.

They filed more than 20,000 pages of documents with the international court in the Netherlands to support their charges, they said.

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"We are convinced this is the proper jurisdiction," she told CNN. "Who else can investigate violent crimes of a global magnitude? The ICC was created to deal with widespread systematic violent crimes against humanity."

Source: CNN

[hedgehog]

1. Things will really get cute if the Irish governmnet joins as a plaintiff!

[ProgressiveProfessor]

2. Significant jurisidictional issues but a good PR move

[trotsky]

4. I agree that the ICC probably can't do anything.

But it keeps the pressure on. Anything that can help these victims receive justice.

[ensho]

3. good, get the enabler

nt

[femrap]

5. [phone]. nt

[Dragonfli]

6. Wasn't he chief Cardinal in charge of covering up sex crimes before the promotion? If so he

he has been directly involved in at least the cover up, one also wonders if he used to partake himself as a younger man, it would explain the sympathy for the abusers.