AUSTRALIA
The Standard
By TOM McILROY
Nov. 10, 2012
DAMNING reports of historic sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the Ballarat and Warrnambool regions was included in evidence to a state inquiry yesterday.
Representatives of the Broken Rites victims’ advocacy organisation detailed around 50 cases of abuse by clergy, including cover-ups of abuse by paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale and offences committed by Father Paul David Ryan in Penshurst.
The group has also provided the inquiry with records of abuse by convicted Christian Brother Robert Charles Best in Ballarat.
Information passed on from The Standard sparked the police inquiry in 1995.
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