US bishops ‘shamed the church’ by failing to stop sex abuse
The censure came as the National Review Board, a lay watchdog panel formed by the bishops, issued two studies documenting the molestation problem from 1950 to 2002.
One report is the first church-sanctioned tally of abuse cases: It found there have been 10,667 abuse claims over those 52 years. More than 80% of the alleged victims were male and over half said they were between ages 11 and 14 when they were assaulted.
