AUSTRALIA
The Australian
JAMIE WALKER THE AUSTRALIAN JANUARY 18, 2014
“LEGALISTIC and cumbersome” processes in the Anglican Church allow pedophile priests to escape punishment if they retire or hand in their licence to practice, the national child sex abuse inquiry is set to report. The royal commission’s counsel assisting, Simeon Beckett, has served notice of explosive findings that the NSW Anglican diocese of Grafton’s handling of compensation claims by abused residents of a children’s home compounded their hurt rather than eased it.
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