The head of France's Orthodox Church on Friday announced an internal investigation into alleged child abuse at a monastery in the southern Herault region more than 30 years ago.
The announcement came after Liberation newspaper reported the account of three brothers who said they had been repeatedly raped there as children. FILE PHOTO
The announcement came after Liberation newspaper reported the account of three brothers who said they had been repeatedly raped there as children. "Reading this article and the information it contains, their statement is well-founded," said Metropolitan Dimitrios, head of the Orthodox Church in France."The authors of these acts are now dead and the unspeakable acts they committed" happened too long ago to be prosecuted in the French courts, he added.
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