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France pays millions in reparations for church sex abuse
Original: Thousands of victims, millions in reparations. How France handled mass church sex abuse
France is moving to compensate thousands of victims of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, with reparations expected to run into millions of euros. The effort follows years of revelations about widespread abuse by clergy and church officials, and renewed scrutiny of how the French state and church institutions have acknowledged and addressed the harm done to survivors.
Why now: New reporting on France's reparations process for church abuse victims has drawn fresh attention to the scale of the scandal.
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