AUSTRALIA
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Australia should use its seat on the United Nations Security Council to push for a UN inquiry into how the Catholic Church moves paedophile priests from First to Third World countries to avoid investigation, the Victorian inquiry into clergy sex abuse heard yesterday, reports The Age.
Victims’ lawyer Angela Sdrinis said she feared an epidemic of abuse in coming decades in developing countries that lacked a strong, independent police force.
”We know that the problem of child sex abuse within the Catholic Church is an international problem.”
No other religious group so often transferred abusers interstate or overseas, especially to Third World countries, she said.
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