Severity of abuses of minors within the Catholic church

The results were presented on Monday, June 28, in an event organized by the responsibles of the study. Last April, the Spanish Catholic Church recognized, for the first time, 220 cases of abuses to minors by Spanish priests since 2001, according to what the representative of the Spanish Episcopal Conference stated in a press release. Initiatives to report sexual abuses in the religious institutions in Spain have been scarce and the protocols to prevent these in the Spanish catholic church are diverse, but have not undergone any investigation on the victimization over the years to tackle it properly. This is one of the conclusions of the study on sexual abuses in the Catholic church carried out in Spain, conducted by Josep M. Tamarit, from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC); Noemí Pereda, from the University of Barcelona (UB) and Gema Varona, from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). The results of this study were presented on Monday, June 28, in the "Session on sexual abuses to minors in religious institutions: restorative responses from victimology", which took place in the auditorium of the Carlos Santamaría Centre of the University of the Basque Country. The event counted on the participation of experts on criminology, psychology, penal law and other fields of knowledge, among other professionals. This project is coordinated by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), together with the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), pioneer in this field since 2013, and the University of Barcelona (UB).