AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By CINDY TRAN FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
The royal commission has referred more than 1,500 child sexual abuse cases to the police to consider for further investigation, a hearing has heard.
Up to 71 people were prosecuted after 1,659 matters reported since 2013 were passed on, imposing strains on resources of police forces in Australia, ABC News reported.
Chairman of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse Peter McClellan told a Sydney hearing the cases have led to a growing pressure to investigate allegations of paedophilia across the country.
‘Because of the volume of references, the resources of the various police forces have been placed under significant pressure,’ Justice McClellan said.
Justice McClellan said the commission had received information about 4,000 institutions but found it would be difficult to hold public hearings into all the cases.
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