AUSTRALIA
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By Stephanie Smail, ABC
January 17, 2013
The Catholic Church has been broadly criticised by a report it commissioned into allegations of a cover-up of child sexual abuse.
Former Federal Court Judge Antony Whitlam was asked by the Church to investigate how it dealt with a New South Wales priest, known as Father F, who was accused of sexually abusing children.
AM has obtained a copy of the report ahead of its public release this morning.
In the report, Mr Whitlam describes repeated failures by the Catholic Church, and says he cannot understand why Father F, who was accused of paedophilia, was allowed to move from one parish to another.
Father F worked in a number of New South Wales parishes in the 1980s and 1990s.
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