Walter Robinson and Mike Rezendes, who won the Pulitzer Prize for uncovering how the Church had hushed up the activities of nearly 90 paedophile priests in Boston, told AFP that thousands more have escaped justice in the United States alone.
With the Hollywood film "Spotlight" about their painstaking probe of the scandal for the Boston Globe newspaper nominated for six Oscars and a slew of other prizes, they said research showed between six and 10 percent of priests have abused children.
Robinson, who led the newspaper's Spotlight investigative team, said they found that around one in 10 priests in Boston were molesters after "the Church was forced to make its records public.
"In many other places the numbers reported by the Church are very small because they have not been forced to tell the truth," Robinson said .... http://news.yahoo.com
