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Geneva family files complaint after 12-yr-old’s sexual assault

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 11:55:08 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 12-year-old girl in the Geneva area was forced to commit fellatio by a group of youths, two of whom she knew from school, last Friday 4 February, and the family has pressed charges, reports the Tribune de Geneve. The girl and a friend were returning from a party when they [...]

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Argentine man held for fathering 10 children with daughter

Sean Ecker — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:49:48 +0000

GenevaLunch.com A man in the central province of Santa Fe, Argentina has been charged with raping and beating his daughter, now 43 years old, and fathering 10 children by her since she was 13. The investigative judge in the case, Virgilio Palud, has likened the case to that of the Austrian Josef Fritzl, convicted in 2009 [...]

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Raid on Belgian Catholic offices angers Church

Ellen Wallace — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:04:17 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Police in Belgium raided offices of the Catholic Church Thursday, sparking a storm of protest. “The Church’s headquarters, the Palace of the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, was sealed off, while officers searched for related material. Bishops meeting there were barred from leaving the premises or telephoning outside for several hours,” reports the BBC. Several other offices [...]

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Swiss bishops: increase in reported sex abuse cases

Laila Rodriguez — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:05:24 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Swiss Catholic church to take harder stance Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss Bishops Conference ended 2 June with several announcements that seemed to indicate a new era of “openness” by the Catholic Church. For the first time, detailed statistics of sexual abuse complaints were presented (104 cases), the Bishops also urged victims to come [...]

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Roman Catholic church surrounded (Chappatte cartoon)

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:56:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com © Chappatte, distributed by Globe Cartoon. More cartoons on Chappatte’s web site. Geneva-based Patrick Chappatte works for the International Herald Tribune, for Geneva newspaper Le Temps, and for NZZ am Sonntag. All cartoons reproduced with permission.

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Swiss Bishops Conference begs pardon

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:05:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Catholic Church leaders in Switzerland say they underestimated the problem Fribourg, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s Bishops Conference, the highest body in the Catholic church in this country, has publicly apologized for problems of sexual abuse by its clergy, saying it grossly “underestimated the extent of the problem.” The Conference notes in a statement (pdf) issued [...]

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Australian PM apologizes for forced child migration, state care neglect

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:42:32 +0000

GenevaLunch.com An estimated 1,000 people known as Forgotten Australians were part of a large crowd that attended a ceremony in Canberra, Australia Sunday 15 November where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized to the estimated 70,000 people who were abused in state care from about 1930-1970, many of them part of a group of British children [...]

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Geneva: 15 children treated after sexually abused by minors in 2008

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:19:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – Fifteen children under the age of 12 were hospitalized and treated for sexual abuse by other children at the HUG (university hospitals) in 2008. but doctors there say they are seeing only a portion of cases. In an interview with Giancarlo Mariani at 20 Minutes they were unable to [...]

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