A retired Catholic bishop has admitted that he failed to protect Queensland children from a priest who was later convicted of child sexual offences.
The former bishop of the Rockhampton diocese, Brian Heenan, conceded at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse that his response to multiple allegations of historical child sexual offences against members of his clergy was inappropriate and inadequate.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/17/former-catholic-bishop-tells-inquiry-he-failed-to-adequately-protect-children
The former bishop of the Rockhampton diocese, Brian Heenan, conceded at the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse that his response to multiple allegations of historical child sexual offences against members of his clergy was inappropriate and inadequate.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/apr/17/former-catholic-bishop-tells-inquiry-he-failed-to-adequately-protect-children