AUSTRALIA
Morning Bulletin
Melanie Plane and Chloe Lyons | 7th Feb 2017
WHEN Margaret Campbell heard 11.4% of priests from the Diocese of Rockhampton in the 1960s had claims of sexual abuse against them during the span of their career, she couldn’t believe it.
It’s not that the high figure came as a surprise to her, it’s that she believes the figure is not high enough.
Ms Campbell, who was sexually abused throughout the seven years she spent at the Neerkol Orphanage on the outskirts of Rockhampton in the 1960s, is this week sitting in on the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse taking place in Sydney.
Yesterday, a new report was released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse showing the extent of child sexual abuse within the Diocese of Rockhampton.
According to the report, which documents claims of abuse between 1950 and 2009, 11.4% of priests from the Diocese of Rockhampton in the 1960s had claims of sexual abuse against them during the span of their career.
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