David Tombs compares the Catholic Church’s recent responses to allegations of sexual abuse in Australia and in Peru. Two documents released last week on sexual abuses in the Catholic
Church in Australia and in Peru seem to show very different responses to
the problem of historical sexual abuses.
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was formally established in 2013, and it has been examining abuse by Catholic clergy and the responses of various Catholic authorities. Its report, titled "Proportion of priests and non-ordained religious subject to a claim of child sexual abuse 1950-2010" (February 2017), gives a clear sense of the scale.
https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/confronting-sexual-abuse-catholic-church
The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was formally established in 2013, and it has been examining abuse by Catholic clergy and the responses of various Catholic authorities. Its report, titled "Proportion of priests and non-ordained religious subject to a claim of child sexual abuse 1950-2010" (February 2017), gives a clear sense of the scale.
https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/confronting-sexual-abuse-catholic-church