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Chloe Lyons | 7th Feb 2017
THE Catholic Bishop of Rockhampton has apologised to victims of child sex abuse after a new report provides details of the horrific levels of historic offending in the Diocese.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has released a report which contains details of the abuse of children within the Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton.
It is claimed in the report 8% of priests who worked in the Diocese between 1950 and 2009 had had a claim of child sex abuse made against them at some stage in their career.
This percentage was 1.3% between 2000 and 2009.
In statement released on Friday, Francis Sullivan of the Truth, Justice and Healing Council said the data contained in reports about the church would “reveal a horrific picture of the extent of the claims of abuse by priests and brothers whose responsibility was to protect and care for children”.
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