AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
Ellen Ebsary
@EEbsary
7 Feb 2017
As the incidence of child abuse in Catholic institutions is further unveiled, a Border advocate for the Care Leavers Australia Network thinks of the victims who will never be identified.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse yesterday identified 14.7 per cent of priests in the Sandhurst Diocese as alleged perpetrators between 1950 and 2010.
This statistic for the church region, which covers the North East, was the second highest rate in the country.
Rhonda Janetzki said these figures were only “scratching the surface”.
“They’re talking about the priests, brothers and nuns, but there was also a lot of abuse from employees and volunteers in those institutions too that hasn’t been mentioned,” she said.
“I think there are thousands of people living in country areas like Albury-Wodonga who have never ever spoken about the abuse inflicted on them.”
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