UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian (UK)
Helen Davidson
theguardian.com, Thursday 12 June 2014
Time is running out for the child sexual abuse inquiry to hear all the cases before it is scheduled to end, the chairman has revealed.
Peter McClellan said the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse would only have time to hold 40 more hearings, even though “at least 30 more” institutions must be examined in public.
He also revealed that the Vatican was yet to respond to a request for key documents.
Speaking to a men’s health symposium at Griffith university in Brisbane, McClellan said the commission had contacted the Vatican and requested documents relating to complaints of abuse by Catholic priests, as well as “documents which reveal the nature and extent of communications between Catholic congregations in Australia and the Holy See”.
However, only some documents relating to an upcoming hearing in Wollongong have been received, and the royal commission is still awaiting a reply to its general request.
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