'Abused religious [women], the other scandal of the Church') is a French documentary television film by Eric Quintin and Marie-Pierre Raimbault in collaboration with Elizabeth Drevillon.
[1] The film, which was first shown on Arte on 5 March 2019,[2] deals with sexualised violence by clerics against nuns and the attempts of the Catholic Church to cover up these acts.
[4]: 1:08:00 Constance reported that, of the about 50 nuns that were students at her Catholic university in an unidentified West African country, 32 were forced into having an abortion at a local hospital after being raped and getting pregnant by sexually abusive priests.
[4]: 1:30:44 The narrator closes the film with the statement: 'At the wishes of our witnesses, we refused to once again relegate the voices of the victims to the secrecy of a private audience and to contribute to the silence of the Holy Father on the issue of the sex slaves in the Catholic Church.
[5] Quintin explained that this time was needed to obtain trust from the victims, as well as other witnesses and Catholic Church officials who were trying to protect them and hold ecclessiastical authorities accountable.
[5] Director Marie-Pierre Raimbault told Les Décodeurs (a website of French newspaper Le Monde): "The victims were very hesitant.
In the 1990s, several nuns had already drawn attention to the widespread sexual abuse in African monasteries, among them Maura O'Donohue, who in 1994 sent a report to Rome on cases in 23 countries.
On April 20, 2019, a court issued an injunction prohibiting one individual from continuing to present the film to Arte in its media library, whereupon it was removed.