Jean-Pierre Ricard admitted to kissing and caressing a girl who he said was about 13 years old. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MARSEILLE, France - French prosecutors said on Saturday they had closed an investigation into sexual assault charges against a cardinal as the statute of limitations had passed.after Jean-Pierre Ricard, a retired bishop made a cardinal by pope Benedict XVI in 2006, admitted in public that he had “behaved in a reprehensible way” towards a young girl 35 years ago.
He said he had also embraced her and “caressed her over her clothes”, but “there was no sexual intercourse.”The most serious sexual offences in France, such as rape, usually have a statute of limitations of 30 years, but the period to bring charges can be extended if the victim was a minor at the time of the offence.
Cardinal Ricard’s confession came after a devastating 2021 report in France estimated that Catholic clergy had abused 216,000 children since 1950. Be Brave, an association fighting for an end to sexual violence against children, criticised the decision by the French legal system as a “masquerade” and a “sham”.
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