AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Rachel Browne
The Jehovah’s Witness Church in Australia failed to protect children in its care from sexual predators, a report has found.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse delivered its report into the organisation on Monday.
It stated that: “Children are not adequately protected from the risk of child sexual abuse in the Jehovah’s Witness organisation and [the commission] does not believe the organisation responds adequately to allegations of child sexual abuse.”
Survivors of sexual abuse within the church and senior church members appeared before a public hearing last year.
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