"This month, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child gave Italy a failing grade on protecting minors from sexual exploitation.
In particular, the committee expressed concern “about the numerous cases of children having been sexually abused by religious personnel of the Catholic Church” and the “low number of investigations and criminal prosecutions” of those crimes.
And while other countries have taken a hard look at the problem of clerical abuse, Italy has approached it with something closer to a media blackout.
Experts consider Italy’s response to be one of the worst among Western nations, comparable to that of some African and Asian churches in which denial about clerical sex abuse is still rampant." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/22/world/europe/italy-cathol...