A CBS News report, published 10 September 2010, on the Belgian Catholic Church's own commission report released that day, compiled by child psychiatrist Peter Adriaenssens, recording 507 people who came forward with accounts of molestation by priests, including victims as young as two, and at least 13 suicides with 6 further attempts linked to the abuse, most of it in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: a major US network's contemporaneous account of the commission's own report, naming the same witness and suicide figures, corroborated by BBC News's independent same-day coverage. NotesTier 2: the source for the 507-witness figure and the 13 suicides with 6 further attempts, cross checked against BBC News's independent reporting on the same report.
Citation
PublisherCBS News
Publication Year2010
URLhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/belgian-report-suicides-tied-to-priest-abuse/
Source Typenews
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 3 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 general references.
Well-attested
9Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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