Pope admits Vatican has 2000-case backlog of sexual abuse cases

[trotsky]

http://globalnews.ca/news/3449723/vatican-sex-abuse-case-backlog-pope-francis/

Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican has a 2,000-case backlog in processing clerical sex abuse cases and says criticism of the slow pace was justified. But he says more staff are being added and insists the Vatican is “on the right path.”

Francis was making his first comments about the criticism leveled at the Vatican’s handling of sex abuse cases by Marie Collins, an Irish abuse survivor who resigned from Francis’ sex abuse advisory commission in March. Collins quit because of what she said was the “unacceptable” level of resistance within the Vatican to implementing the group’s proposals to better care for victims and protect children from priests who rape and molest them.

Speaking to reporters while flying home Saturday from a trip to Portugal, Francis called Collins “a great woman” and said she was “a bit right” to complain about the slow pace in processing cases.

“Marie Collins was right on that point. But we are on the right path, as there were 2,000 cases backlogged,” he said.

The sad part is thinking just how many more cases never got reported.

[Cartoonist]

1. 2000+

As Dan Savage said, if this were a Denny's, they would all be burned down.

[Not Ruth]

2. 2000 cases equals 200,000+ kids

[Voltaire2]

3. If they get through a case a year perhaps they will be finished before Jesus gets back.

Or not.