AUSTRALIA
Lismore Echo
Scott Sawyer | 8th Feb 2017
THE figures released by the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuse are shocking, there’s no other way to describe them.
Average ages of the victims were 10.5 for girls and 11.6 for boys.
Truly horrific.
In only 35 years, from 1980 to 2015, almost 4500 people alleged they were abused as children in more than 1000 Catholic institutions.
How were these despicable acts covered up for so long?
Who knows, but one thing is clear, conservatives fearing a rise of Islam already overlooked what can only be classed as religious terrorism that is thriving within our communities.
Victims took on average 33 years to come forward and reveal the horrors they suffered.
This means we’ll be dealing with this problem for decades to come. That’s without taking into account fresh abuse taking place.
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