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May 1, 2014

Don’t equate sexual abuse of minors with torture, Vatican tells UN

Members of the U.S.-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP hold portraits of themselves as youths as they address the media during a protest outside St. Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland in this picture dated Sept. 15 2010. The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, which represents 18,000 victims, said that hundreds of children and adults were still being “sexually violated, tortured and assaulted” by Catholic priests.

VATICAN CITY - As Vatican representatives prepare to testify before a United Nations inquiry into torture next week, a senior official warned investigators that it would be “deceptive” to link torture with the pedophilia scandals that have swept the Catholic Church.

Published in Vatican