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	Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church ABC News (Australia) May 25, 2009 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifematters/stories/2009/2579498.htm [audio presentation] Ireland is in a state of shock following the tabling of the report into child abuse in Catholic institutions. The report found that rape was endemic in more than 250 Irish-Catholic care institutions from the 1930s to the 1990s, and the church protected paedophiles from prosecution. In Australia there have been calls to look at the connections, if any, between the Irish perpetrators of sexual abuse and Australian parishes. Chris McIsaac is the president of Broken Rites, an Australian group established to help victims of church related sexual abuse. Listen now or Download audio.
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