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The Catholic Church here must learn better and more compassionate ways of responding to victims of clerical child sexual abuse.
That is according to the Chief Executive of the Church’s child protection watchdog
Writing in the annual report of the National Board for the Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church, Teresa Devin revealed that the number of allegations made in the past year has fallen to 164.
Ms Devlin says that in the twelve months to the end of March, the board received 64 allegations, suspicions or concerns of child sexual abuse relating to priests from dioceses and 100 against members of religious congregations.
As some clerics were subject of more than one complaint, it is not clear how many were concerned.
Some of the allegations date back as far as 1948.
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