AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Friday 13 December 2013
The Catholic church had known about child sex abuse allegations against a northern NSW priest since the 1980s, an inquiry has heard.
Jennifer Ingham has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that she was abused from the age of 16 in 1978 until 1982 by a parish priest in the diocese of Lismore, Father Paul Rex Brown, who died in 2005.
She claims she confronted church figures in 1990 but only received an apology this year.
On Friday, the commission heard evidence that the church was aware of sex abuse claims about Brown from as early as 1985.
Emma Fenby, a former claims manager for Catholic Church Insurance (CCI), also gave evidence on Friday.
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