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Dutch bishop found to have been a child abuser

Tuesday, April 15th, 2014

The Catholic Church in the Netherlands has admitted that a Dutch bishop who died last year was a child abuser. A church complaints commission found that the late Bishop Jo Gijsen committed abuse. This happened decades ago when he was a chaplain and a teacher in the southern Netherlands. The abuse reportedly happened in 1958-9 Read more