AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Hang your heads in shame, Denis Napthine tells Catholic leaders
Hannah Jenkins
From: The Australian
November 13, 2013
VICTORIAN Premier Denis Napthine has condemned the culture of the Catholic Church in The Victorian Parliamentary inquiry into religious child sex abuse.
Dr Napthine said the Catholic Church had failed in its duty to protect the welfare of young children who had suffered in the hands of people they had every right to trust.
“The leaders of the Catholic Church should hang their heads in shame,” he said.
Dr Napthine criticised the Catholic Church for decades of concealing abuse and not taking action against the perpetrators responsible.
“The culture seemed to be putting the interests of the church and its priests ahead of the interests of children and victims, and that is totally and utterly wrong,’ he said.
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