AUSTRALIA
Courier-Mail
BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL AAP JULY 03, 2014
INSTITUTIONS dealing with child abuse will be paralysed if there is a three and a half year wait for a federal inquiry’s final report, a prominent Catholic lawyer says.
FATHER Frank Brennan, who is professor of law at the Australian Catholic University, says the effects of a two-year extension sought by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have not been taken into account.
In its interim report on Monday, the commission said it would need a two-year extension until December 2017, and an extra $104 million.
Fr Brennan said on Thursday the Catholic Church, as the main organisation under the commission’s scrutiny, had spent years trying to develop protocols to deal with sexual abuse.
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