HUNDREDS of sex abuse victims have come forward in Belgium with harrowing accounts of molestation by Catholic clergy that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides and affected children as young as two, a Belgian commission said yesterday.

Hundreds of sex abuse victims gave harrowing accounts of abuse by Catholic priests that reportedly led to at least 13 suicides, an independent Belgian commission said today.

A BELGIAN Catholic Church-backed commission probing hundreds of reported cases of child abuse by priests announced its resignation en masse yesterday, after police raids on its offices that angered the Pope.