AUSTRALIA
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The head of a pentecostal Christian college in Victoria failed to protect students even though there was abundant evidence they were being sexually abused, a royal commission has found.
In a report released on Friday, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is heavily critical of how Northside Christian College and its affiliated pentecostal church in Victoria handled complaints against pedophile Kenneth Sandilands, who was jailed in 2001.
In October last year, the commission examined how a number of Australian Christian Churches (former Assemblies of God) institutions in Australia responded to abuse allegations.
Northside Christian College at Bundoora in Melbourne’s northeast, and the Sunshine Coast Church in Queensland, as well as Hillsong in NSW, were among those investigated.
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