AUSTRALIA
Sky Valley Chronicle
CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA CONFIRMS HUNDREDS OF CHILDREN ABUSED BY CLERGY
(MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA) — In yet another horrific tale of child sexual abuse at the hands of clergy, the Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria has confirmed that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by priests going back to the 1930s.
According to published reports, the number of confirmed abuse cases within the church were released to a state investigation into the handling of abuse cases by religious and non-government organizations.
In the release of information church officials said the 620 cases went back 80 years but the majority of cases took place between the 1960s and the 1980s.
A report by The Saturday Age (theage.com) newspaper in Victoria says all but 13 of the cases were before 1990.
The four Victorian dioceses of the church gave a joint report on the abuse cases to the State Parliament inquiry on Friday.
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