The two commissions put in place by the bishops and the religious finalize their model of operation and began to receive the first requests emanating from the victims.
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In November 2021, the bishops and the religious decided to create two independent commissions charged with receiving the demands of the victims of sexual violence on minors in the Catholic Church and to give them recognition and reparation. It was part of their response to the report of the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (CIASE), which had brought the extent of the facts of pedocinality for seventy years. Three months later, the two commissions put the last hand to their organization and model of operation. They have already started receiving the first requests.
Even before its start-up, nearly two hundred people have already contacted the independent national proceeding of recognition and repair (INIRR), created by the episcopate for people who are victims of diocesan priests. Although not yet decided, his president, the jurist Marie Derain de Vaucresson, had to present the architecture, Thursday, February 24, in order to “shed light on people who have been waiting for that for years. “The structuring of the INIRR is evolutionary, explains this former child defender. It will depend greatly on the number of requests we will receive. We want to quickly have a sustainable secretary, a representative officer, a secretariat and two or three listeners Employees and two or three volunteers, all professionals. By the end of the year, if we have seized 10,000 situations, we will need about twenty full-time equivalents. “
“Individualized response”
The victims who will contact the INIRR (by paper or electronic mail) will initially have an exchange with a listener at first. This will verify the likelihood of the alleged facts and then, in a second step, will help it refine its demands, its expectations, including compensation, if any. How to evaluate this compensation? How to take into account, at the same time, the type of acts suffered, the consequences that resulted in the life of the assaulted person and his needs? “It’s a job still under construction, says Marie Derain de Vaucresson. There are very complex justice and fairness issues. The answer will be individualized.”
Listening to the listener will finally present “a synthesis to a college of experts who will meet regularly and will validate the proposed approach,” says the president. Will the associations and collectives of victims have a place in the device? M me Derain de Vaucresson evokes a “place of structured dialogue” with them, that it desires concerted with his counterpart for the victims of religious, the Recognition and Repair Commission (CRR), presided over by the lawyer Antoine Garapon, former member of the Ciase.
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