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Tue 03 Mar 2010Dutch set up clerical abuse commission
The Catholic Church in the Netherlands is asking an independent commission to look into reports of alleged sexual abuses by priests, it said today, in response to an increasing number of victims coming forward.
More than 200 Catholics in the Netherlands have come forward in the past week with reports of abuse, often from decades ago, after a report by Radio Netherlands Worldwide and newspaper NRC Handelsbad that three priests from the Salesian order abused pupils decades ago at a boarding school.
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