A former priest detailed Tuesday how he systematically abused boys over two decades as a French scout chaplain, and said his superiors knew about his “abnormal” behavior as far back as the 1970s.
The shocking testimony of Bernard Preynat is likely to further shake up the French Catholic Church as it reckons with sexual abuses that were long covered up.
Preynat, now 74, is charged with sexually abusing multiple minors and faces up to 10 years in
prison in what is France's biggest clergy sex abuse trial to date.