African victims of clergy abuse deserve justice and accountability, too
Al JazeeraAnglican and Catholic churches must not forget or ignore the boys who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of predatory priests across the continent. Smyth is found to have physically, sexually and psychologically abused more than 100 boys and young men over four decades at Church of England-affiliated summer camps in England, South Africa and my country, Zimbabwe. To this day, Chaning-Pearce has never faced any accountability for his alleged abuse of children in Zimbabwe An acute tragedy of clergy abuse in Zimbabwe is that Catholic schools like St. Ignatius, St. George’s and Kutama attracted some of the brightest children from across the country, many on scholarships. Just as they did elsewhere, the Anglican and Catholic churches must launch full inquiries into historical sex abuse at their schools in Zimbabwe, and elsewhere in Africa.
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