ABUSE? WHAT ABUSE?

I think one issue here is how language changes. In the media, “sexual assault” is a term used to describe everything from being grabbed rudely to rape. Those are two wholly different set of experiences, yet both are described with the same phrase. “Sexual harassment” can be verbal, written (crude text messages), physical, and can include vulgar gestures and in some definitions, staring or ogling.

Maybe it would help to be more specific in describing what was done, and how that effected the person on the receiving end of the concerning behavior?

Here is link to report of abuse by priests in Australia.
Religious institutions | Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Why should France be any different.
In LOve
Jay Sea

I think in this particular case the word "abuse" is accurate. The commission which investigated the claims was set up by French Catholic Bishops.

https://www.voanews.com/a/pope-fran...-to-protect-child-abuse-victims-/6259693.html

The independent commission was set up by French bishops in 2018. Investigators went through court, police and Church records and interviewed thousands of victims and witnesses. The findings, which were published Monday, revealed that at least 216,000 children, mostly boys, were abused by up to 3,200 priests and other clerics since 1950. When lay members of the Church are included, the number of victims is estimated at 330,000.

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The French commission follows similar investigations in other countries, including the United States and Australia. Pope Francis has described sexual abuse within the Catholic Church as a "worldwide catastrophe."

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We had a commission in Australia and the Catholic Church wasn't the only institution investigated. It was a wide ranging commission, and quite a few other organisations were investigated including the Scouts, Jehovah's Witnesses, YMCA NSW, Salvation Army, Grammar Schools and the Australian Defence Force, amongst others.

The abuse happened. I shared digs with a chap for a while and he had been through a place called the Enoggera Boy's Home. At one point there was a pedophile on the staff, who was named in the commission. It didn't mean much to me as I didn't go through it, but I remember the other chap naming the pedophile years before the commission became a reality.

It was Anglican incidentally, not Catholic.

Some of the reports were about nuns using crucifixes to penetrate young girls. My dad called me PO'd and ranting. So THAT kind of abuse. It's sick.