The final report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), a 21 member interdisciplinary panel chaired by Jean-Marc Sauve, a former senior civil servant, commissioned in 2018 by French Catholic bishops and financed by the church but operating independently of it, with unpaid members. Released October 5, 2021. It directly documented roughly 2,900 to 3,200 known abusers holding positions in the church since 1950 from direct testimony and church archives, and separately produced a population-survey based EXTRAPOLATION, not a headcount, estimating 216,000 minors abused by clergy over the same period (330,000 if lay church staff are included). This atlas records the extrapolated figure as an estimate rather than an attested count, and its status is carried as debated rather than attested for that reason.
Facts
Citation
AuthorIndependent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Jean-Marc Sauve, chair)
PublisherCommission Independante sur les Abus Sexuels dans l'Eglise (CIASE)
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/10/05/europe/france-catholic-church-abuse-report-intl/index.html
Source TypeReport
Assessment
Reliability Tier1
Tier 1: an independent commission of recognised experts with direct archive access. NotesTier 1: an independent commission of recognised experts with direct archive access. Its extrapolated victim estimate is a distinct, lower-certainty figure from its directly documented abuser count, and this atlas keeps the two separate rather than conflating a survey extrapolation with a headcount.
Claims Backed By This Source (28 claims)
This source backs 28 claims across the atlas. As facts: 21 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 2 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 12 claims: 9 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Articles, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
- Denominations, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
Well-attested
21Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
Scholarly debate
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
Holds
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
3Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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