Legislate to 'Force Sex Abuse Compo', Says Brisbane Archbishop Phillip Aspinall

By Dan Box
The Australian
November 28, 2013

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THE head of the Anglican faith in Australia said yesterday his church had failed dozens of children who were sexually abused, and called for federal laws forcing his church to compensate victims of these crimes.

In an extraordinary admission outside the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Brisbane Archbishop Phillip Aspinall said senior clerics in one NSW diocese "failed to treat (the church's) procedures with anything but contempt".