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00:00Fifty Filipinos are included in the list of those who have a record of sexual abuse based on the reports of a group that monitors clergy abuse around the world.
00:11The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines has a news report from Joseph Moro.
00:19Eighty Filipinos are included in the list of those who have a record of sexual abuse based on the reports of a group that monitors clergy abuse around the world.
00:42This added to the number of victims, minors, women and men. Although some of them were released from the prosecution, some of them were already charged
00:50or were removed from the group. But there is also a secret that they were replaced by their co-director.
00:56We have tracked at least seven cases of priests recently accused, mostly of raping a minor, who are back in full ministry with the obvious blessing of their bishops.
01:10The group is saddened by the fact that it is usually the bishops who are in charge of these priests who seem to be helping the abused priests.
01:18They feel entitled to return priests accused of very serious crimes to ministry without humbly accounting for why they feel the priest poses no risk.
01:28Aside from the Filipino priests, 10 foreign priests were accused of raping here in the Philippines, but not to the public.
01:35That's why it was included in this database.
01:38The secrecy which is overwhelming, one of the worst. Philippine bishops feel entitled to their silence.
01:48They feel entitled to withhold information about sexual violence toward minors.
01:54They feel entitled to defend accused priests knowing full well that those statements will discourage victims and witnesses.
02:01One of the cases in the database of the group is the complaint of abusing a 16-year-old woman against a priest in Tuguegarao City in 2023.
02:10The group is far from releasing a list to break the church's silence on the issue of clergy abuse.
02:17According to the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, or CBCP, an organization of all bishops in the Philippines,
02:25they established the Office for the Safeguarding of Minors, led by an archbishop, bishops and experts, under the order of Rome.
02:33The Vatican's order is to seriously respond to the abuse of priests.
02:39It is the responsibility of the bishops to take action on the complaints that should be immediately reported to the Vatican.
02:45The group BishopAccountability.org admitted that for the Philippines, which is the third largest Catholic country in the world,
02:52it may not be easy to complain.
02:54They want to reach the victims who have something to run for.
02:58Jemai is a transgender who became a victim of the abuse of a priest.
03:03Their belief in God and trust in the institution is different.
03:07This has nothing to do with God. There are good people within the church.