Catholic Church "like Outlaw Bikie Gangs"

By Stuart Rintoul
The Australian
May 12, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/catholic-church-like-outlaw-bikie-gangs/story-e6frg6nf-1226645644370

BARRISTER Bryan Keon-Cohen has likened the Catholic Church to outlaw motorcycle gangs, drug cartels and people-smugglers over its treatment of child-abuse victims.

Speaking at a legal conference yesterday, Dr Keon-Cohen, president of abuse organisation Commission of Inquiry Now, said the church had put the welfare of priests above concern for child rape victims, treated abuse as a sin rather than a crime, and its protocols for dealing with abuse were insufficient and objectionable.