AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart has told Victoria’s parliamentary inquiry into child sex abuse that the Church was slow to act on alleged abuse by clergy.
Transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: One by one, the leaders of Australia’s Church hierarchy are being held to account over the decades of child sex abuse that occurred around the country.
Today it was the turn of Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart to be grilled at the Victorian parliamentary inquiry on its second last day of public hearings.
Under intense questioning, Archbishop Hart was forced to admit to a cover-up and years of delay in dealing with perpetrators in his diocese.
National affairs correspondent Heather Ewart reports.
HEATHER EWART, REPORTER: These victims have been waiting years for this day to come. They’ve travelled together by train from Geelong to see the Catholic Church’s Archbishop Denis Hart face some tough questions.
What do you want from this inquiry today?
CHRIS PIANTO: Justice for the survivors of sex abuse. … Catholic clergy or abusers of children to be brought to justice.
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