Spanish government proposes new law to improve online safety for children
The Spanish government has proposed a new law to protect children from online threats that includes virtual restraining orders for felons, a higher age for...
Child Sex Abuse
Spanish government wants Catholic Church to compensate its victims of sex abuse
Spain on Tuesday approved a plan aimed at making reparation and economic compensation for victims of sex abuse committed by people connected to the Catholic...
Spain’s bishops apologise again for sex abuses, yet dispute number of victims
Spain’s Catholic bishops have apologised again for sex abuses committed by church members following a recent report by Spain’s Ombudsman that accused the church of...
Up to 440,000 victims of child abuse in Spanish church, Ombudsman reports
Over 200,000 children are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published...
Spain’s Catholic bishops find evidence of 728 sexual abusers within church since 1945
Spain’s Episcopal Conference, the Catholic bishops’ conference, has said that it has found evidence of 728 sexual abusers within the church since 1945, through the...
Spain’s Supreme Court upholds 135-year sentence of British paedophile
The Spanish Supreme Court has upheld the 135-year prison sentence of a British teacher and au pair who created and distributed pornography of children in...
Spain’s ombudsman has heard testimonies from 445 victims of church sex abuse
Spain’s ombudsman (‘Defensor del Pueblo’ in Spanish) has said that an independent commission set up a year ago to investigate historic sex abuse by the...
Spain’s Ombudsman says little ‘enthusiasm’ from Church into child abuse inquiry
Spain’s Ombudsman, Ángel Gabilondo, has said there is little ‘enthusiasm’ within Spain’s Catholic Church for the on-going investigation that he is leading into child sexual abuse...
Spanish police arrest 18 in operation targeting child sex abuse
Spanish National Police have arrested 18 people for alleged online distribution and possession of child sexual exploitation material. Those arrested, who stored and shared illicit...
Spain’s Catholic Church asks law firm to investigate allegations of child abuse
Spain’s Catholic Church has said that a Madrid-based law firm will carry out an independent investigation into past and present allegations of child sex abuse involving...
