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The royal commission into child sexual abuse will hear further evidence this week on the YMCA in NSW and the Catholic Church’s handling of complaints.
Source AAP
The national child sex abuse inquiry will sit this week to hear further evidence on two case studies – the YMCA NSW and the Catholic Church’s abuse complaints procedure.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse ended 2013 with a report criticising YMCA NSW senior management over systemic failures, which led to pedophile Jonathan Lord working at child-care centres in south Sydney for two years.
Lord was jailed in January 2013 for six years over 13 offences he committed against children while with the YMCA.
When the hearing resumes on Tuesday, the commission will hear from YMCA NSW, which has asked the commission to reject findings in the report presented by commission senior counsel Gail Furness.
Then on Wednesday the commission will continue a hearing into Towards Healing, the Catholic Church process for abuse complainants.
In December this fourth case study, and the first involving the Catholic Church, was adjourned.
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