The Sauvé report on child crime in the French Catholic Church did not stop at giving an estimate of the number of victims of clerics or lay people (around 300,000 since 1950).
The Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase) wanted to compare the prevalence of child crime in other sectors of society.
Thanks to the assistance of Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research), the commission arrives at an estimate of the number of victims of sexual violence against minors in France since 1950: 5.4 million.
In that figure, according to the Huffington Post, there are 3.9 million women and 1.5 million men. “According to our results, 14.5% of women and 6.4% of men over the age of 18 today have experienced sexual violence when they were minors, whether it be 'sexual touching, attempted or forced intercourse or other sexual acts performed without the consent of the person,' says the report.
To arrive at this estimate of 5.4 million victims over the past seventy years, a study was carried out on 28,000 people representative of French society.
The report states that this is a low estimate.
If we take it into account, only 4% of pedophile offenses took place within the framework of the Church, most of the incidents took place in the family circle.
But the Church is the second place where the prevalence of sexual violence against minors is the highest.
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