The law aims to formulate a procedure that allows the “exercise of the right to recognition” of victims of sexual abuse committed within the Catholic Church of Navarre.
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The plenary session of the Parliament of Navarre this Thursday passed the formal law of recognition of victims of sexual abuse commit within Catholic Church, a text by which it is intended to “cover prescribed cases, without interfering with cases that may still be brought before the courts”. All political groups supported the proposal, except Navarra Suma, who voted against it.
The law, promoted by PSN, Geroa Bai, Podemos and IE, and which added the support of EH Bildu, aims to formulate a procedure that allows the “exercise of the right to recognition” of victims of sexual abuse committed within the Catholic Church of Navarre to “include in the collective memory, in a subsidiary way in the light of any action of a criminal or sanction nature, a reality hidden and ignored by the majority of society”.
A group of victims attended the debate in Parliament’s plenary session, which, during Navarra Suma’s turn to speak, donned some Eskimo masks in protest at Navarra Suma’s words in committee, pointing out that the law should recognize all victims without distinguishing between areas and mentioned, for example, abuses among Eskimos. The Speaker of the Foral Parliament, Unai Hualde, has asked them to remove their masks and they have succeeded.
The law sets in motion a process aimed at granting “a special status which, through recognition and restoration at the institutional and social level, contributes to making all those facts and actions subject to the apology of oblivion, to the various forms of revisionism and denial” used to “justify and/or deny the existence of sexual abuse of minors by members of the Catholic Church”.
For example, a procedure is being created to document “with the greatest possible care and in an individualized way” the applications submitted to the so-called Recognition Commission, an independent collegiate body charged with the assessment of applications for a declaration of the status of victim of abuse “in contexts where the church had a guarantor”.
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Source: EITB
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