{"id":67067,"date":"2011-09-13T22:01:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=67067"},"modified":"2011-09-13T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T05:01:52","slug":"hague-asked-to-investigate-vatican-for-sexual-abuse-crimes-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/09\/13\/hague-asked-to-investigate-vatican-for-sexual-abuse-crimes-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hague Asked To Investigate Vatican For Sexual Abuse, Crimes Against Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican is in trouble once again. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/14\/world\/europe\/14vatican.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\" target=\"blank\">New York Times,<\/a> the International Criminal Court in The Hague has been asked by human rights lawyers, clergy sexual abuse victims and American groups the <a href=\"http:\/\/ccrjustice.org\/\" target=\"blank\">Center for Constitutional Rights<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snapnetwork.org\/\">Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests<\/a> to investigate Pope Benedict XVI and three high-ranking Vatican officials for crimes against humanity. The crimes the groups want the Vatican to be investigated for include what is described as &#8220;abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The complaints states, &#8220;The high-level officials of the Catholic church who failed to prevent these criminal actions have, to date, enjoyed absolute impunity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There has been no official comment form the Vatican yet, according to the Rev. Fredrico Lombardi, the Vatican&#8217;s spokesman, but Mark Ellis, the executive director of the International Bar Association, said the complaint probably doesn&#8217;t fall under the heading of &#8220;crimes against humanity.&#8221; According to Ellis, the complaints are really looking at policy by the government or authorities. &#8220;Crimes against humanity means acts that are committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>To view the full story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/14\/world\/europe\/14vatican.html?_r=1&amp;ref=world\" target=\"blank\">click here<\/a>. Also, check out this video on the story by the Huffington Post below. <\/p>\n<p><object width='500' height='325' id='FiveminPlayer' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'\/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'\/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/embed.5min.com\/517159808\/'\/><param name='wmode' value='opaque' \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican is in trouble once again. 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