“There is an approximate (number of accused priests) and it will clearly be more than 100,” child psychiatrist Pedro Strecht, who headed the commission, told SIC television, according to Reuters.
“’It’s very hard to talk about these things in Portugal,’ a country where 80% of people say they are Catholic, said Alexandra, who is now a mother and works as
“The Portuguese commission started its work in January after a report in France revealed around 3,000 priests and religious officials sexually abused over 200,000 children over the past 70 years,” according to
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