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The child protection watchdog of the Catholic Church has published eight reviews of the practices and procedures in place to address sex abuse cases. The audit covers the period between January 1975 and May 2013.
It examines six separate dioceses and two religious congregations.
The work was carried out by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church (NBSCCC).
This latest tranche of reports from the Catholic Church child protection watchdog shows that during a period of almost three decades 870 allegations of child sex abuse were made against 325 members of the Christian Brothers order.
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