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Answering your questions on The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Tory Shepherd
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April 03, 2013
LATE last year, a NSW police officer made shocking allegations about child-sex abuse and cover-ups within the Catholic Church and the police force.
That started a snowball effect, a rallying cry for a federal Royal Commission to investigate institutional sex abuse once and for all.
Within days, Prime Minister Julia Gillard ordered that such a commission be established to investigate child-sex offenders and those who protected them, and those who “averted their eyes” to what was going on.
Now The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has held its first hearing in Melbourne.
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