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Posted by: Derryn Hinch | 11 October, 2012
The worst thing about the Victoria Police exposure of the Catholic Church’s deliberate and dedicated decades-long cover-up of sexual assaults on children by priests, is that it doesn’t surprise me. Not for a minute.
Even though it almost makes the gorge rise in the throat and makes me want to scream at everybody – at so-called church leaders, at some of the cops, and past governments – makes me want to shout: ‘What took you so frigging long?’
How many more innocent children have suffered at the hands of predatory priests because of systemic stonewalling and covering up and pervert protection in the name of God?
Catholic leaders are trotting out again. Same old pious bullshit. ‘We’re shocked and amazed by these latest allegations. Had no idea any of this was going on’. After all, remember, they haven’t reported to Police even one case of a priest sexually assaulting a child. Not one. They admit that in the past 14 years they’ve paid money to 300 victims. Hush money.
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