#IRELAND: Head Of Gov't To Apologize For 70-Year Unwed Mother Child Abuse Scandal

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Ireland confronted one of the darkest chapters of its past this week with the publication of a report detailing how 9,000 children died in state-run homes for youngsters born out of wedlock.

The 3,000-page report was the result of an inquiry into "appalling" levels of mortality at Ireland's "mother and baby" homes between the 1920s and 1990s.

The Taoiseach/Prime Minister Mícheál Martin, is expected to make a formal apology to survivors of the homes today. Roughly 15% of the 57,000 children who passed through the homes over the decades died, a figure far higher than wider norms.

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#JAPAN: Cabinet Moves Forward To Ban Parents From Spanking Children After High-Profile Abuse Cases

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The Japanese cabinet has approved legislation banning parents from inflicting corporal punishment upon their own children, an effort intended to curb child abuse at home in light of recent high-profile cases where children were fatally mistreated in the name of discipline. If passed by the ongoing regular Diet session, the amendment would take effect next April.

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#VATICANCITY: Top-Ranking Vatican Official Convicted Of Child Sexual Abuse In Australia

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A top adviser to Pope Francis has been convicted of child sex abuse in Australia, the highest-ranking official convicted in the long-running Catholic Church scandal. An jury found Cardinal George Pell, 77, guilty on five charges of "historical child sexual offenses" that go back decades. The 12-member jury gave their unanimous verdict in the County Court of the State of Victoria in Melbourne on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

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#GERMANY: #Green Party Apologizes for Earlier Support of Pedophilia in Party Platform

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Green co-president Simone Peter.

#SOUTHKOREA: Gov't Will Introduce Fines for Failing to Report Child Abuse

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The justice ministry said it will propose a law that would fine people up to 5 million won ($4,873) for failing to report child abuse. The law would also give a prosecutor the authority to keep track of a case through a committee made up of police, doctors, lawyers and welfare workers, the ministry said.