Other Christian institutions & contexts Catholic Spain (national) · 2023

Spain: Ombudsman's national report estimates hundreds of thousands abused in church contexts

Record class

Institutional event

Evidence status

Official finding

Authority role

priests and religious across Spanish church institutions

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

An aggregate official finding on abuse committed through clerical and religious-educational authority across Spanish institutions.

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2023-10-27 · national investigative report

Defensor del Pueblo (Spanish Ombudsman). The Ombudsman's report, based on a survey of 8,013 people and 487 victim testimonies, estimated that roughly 440,000 adults in Spain suffered sexual abuse in a religious-institutional context — about 234,000 directly by priests or religious — and recommended reparations and access to church archives.

Primary record

official government body inquiry report Defensor del Pueblo, national report on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (27 Oct. 2023).: The Ombudsman's report with the survey methodology and estimates.

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