AUSTRALIA
ABC News
Abuse victims say they hope there will be a strong response to the findings of the Victorian Parliamentary inquiry into child abuse.
The committee has spent the past year analysing the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations and will hand down its final report today.
It will make recommendations to the State Government, which has six months to respond.
There is a long history of the sexual abuse of children in Ballarat’s schools, churches and orphanages, dating back to the 1950s.
Many people gave evidence to the inquiry when public hearings were held in the city last December
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