AUSTRALIA
WA Today
November 17, 2012
Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie
THE Australian Catholic Church holds thousands of pages of documents containing the psycho-sexual profiles of dozens of clergy accused of sexually abusing children and vulnerable adults.
The profiles, often sent to bishops, were created as part of the church’s little-known 1997-2008 rehabilitation program for those it described as ”sexual boundary violators”.
It is understood none of the clergy treated under the multimillion-dollar Encompass Australasia program run from Sydney’s Wesley Private Hospital was referred to police.
This was despite senior church figures being aware of serious abuse allegations – or in some cases, admissions – that led to clergy being sent for treatment.
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