AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Danny Morgan
The Catholic Church in Victoria has confirmed 620 cases of child sexual abuse by clergy since the 1930s.
It is the first time the church has publicly released the figure.
In a submission to a Victorian Parliamentary inquiry, the church revealed the cases of criminal child abuse have been upheld by its own complaint procedure.
It says the cases go back 80 years, but the vast majority relate to abuse in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s.
Most of the cases reported came from Ballarat and Mortlake, in regional Victoria, and Oakleigh and Rupertswood.
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