AUSTRALIA
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ABC News
The Catholic Church in Victoria says complaints about child sexual and physical abuse are continuing to pour in.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has released new information that shows 95 complaints from victims of child sexual and physical abuse were received in the last financial year.
Fifty-three of the complaints are being dealt with by the church’s internal response programs, Towards Healing and the Melbourne Response.
The church says 28 of those complaints have been upheld so far.
Seven of the unresolved complaints have been taken to the police.
The church says another 42 complaints from child victims were made directly to representatives of the church after the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child abuse.
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