Black Collar Crime

By Michaela Andreyev
ABC Adelaide
May 29, 2013

http://blogs.abc.net.au/sa/2013/05/black-collar-crime.html


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The Catholic Church is facing weeks of official questioning over the sexual abuse scandal that goes back several decades in Australia.

Cardinal George Pell has already appeared before the Victorian parliamentary committee inquiry, at which he confessed false documents were created and priests took part in "reprehensible" cover-ups.

He noted that if his senior colleagues had been gossips - which they were not - they might have talked about various problems and realised earlier "just how widespread this awful business was".

Ian spoke to Wayne Chamley, spokesperson for Broken Rites, an organisation dedicated to exposing and denouncing cases in the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Australia.

Broken Rites has supported male and female victims from the Catholic Church, the Anglican Church and the Uniting Church, as well as from smaller denominations.

Mr Chamley said it was not too late for any complainant to contact the Royal Commission - in fact they can do so at any time over the next two years.

Royal Commission hotline: 1800 099 340

Royal Commission website: www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au

Broken Rites Australian national hotline: (03) 9457 4999