AUSTRALIA
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AAP
It took more than six years for an order of nuns to respond to a complaint a 13-year-old disabled girl had been abused in their care, an inquiry has been told.
Sonia Wagner, former superior of the Sisters of Good Samaritan of the Order of St Benedict, visited a family six years after the alleged abuse of their disabled daughter, CIB, at a Mater Dei school in Camden NSW in 1991.
Sister Wagner told a royal commission on Monday she was asked in 1997 to follow up a complaint which had been made by police to the Catholic Education Commission.
A mother, CIC, had rung the police hotline six years after her daughter was allegedly sexually abused by a house parent, referred to as CID, at a Camden Mater Dei residential cottage for disabled children.
The commission has heard CID resigned from Mater Dei and left Australia in July 1991.
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