Concealing child abuse must be made into a criminal offence, NSS urges UN
Posted: Fri, 25th Nov 2011
The National Secular Society has made a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council asking it to press the UK Government to tackle the serious problems emerging over large scale child abuse and its cover-up in the Catholic Church.
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