AUSTRALIA
The Record
The days of the Church in Australia conducting its own investigations into child ¬sexual abuse “must be over”, according to the Chief Executive of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council, Francis Sullivan.
Mr Sullivan’s comments were published in The Weekend Australian on 16-17 October in response to a call for a national ¬redress scheme to compensate ¬victims of abuse.
“More than anything else, abuse survivors have been calling for fair and compassionate redress,” Mr Sullivan said.
“With the decisions about what this looks like taken out of the hands of the institutions responsible for the abuse,” he said.
“In the case of the Catholic Church, the days of the Church ¬investigating itself must be over.”
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