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28 July 2015

Church ‘hid child sex abuse’

The Jehovah's Witnesses Church in Australia failed to report to police more than 1 000 cases of child sexual abuse going back more than 60 years, a government investigation into abuse and its aftermath heard on Monday.
Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which was launched in 2013 amid allegations of serial child abuse inside the Catholic Church in Australia, has a broad mandate to examine religious and secular organisations.

http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/church-hid-child-sex-abuse-1.1891169#.VbbWTvmXmUl