Up to 382 minors were abused by clergy in a Polish Church between 1990 and 2018, according to findings from an investigation, which were presented by the Polish Catholic Church on Thursday, Euronews reports.
The report said as many as 198 of the victims were below the age of 15.
“This is an especially painful, tragic issue as it is connected with consecrated people, who devoted themselves to serving the church, other human beings. They have social trust and this social trust was so tragically violated,” Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski said at the news conference in Warsaw.
The report is part of an investigation into widespread abuse of minors by the clergy in countries such as Chile, the US, Australia, and Ireland.