A U.N. committee has accused U.S. legal authorities of failing to fully pursue cases of child sex abuse in religious groups, an issue especially troubling the Roman Catholic Church.The Committee on the Rights of the Child wrote this month that it was “deeply concerned” to find widespread sexual abuse by clerics and staff of religious institutions and “a lack of measures ... to properly investigate cases and prosecute them”.
MORE: http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2013/02/18/u-n-child-rights-body-says-u-s-lax-on-clerical-sex-abuse-cases/
