AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Georgie Burgess
Tasmania’s Anglican Bishop has taken disciplinary action against a senior church figure following the release of the child sex abuse royal commission’s findings.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse held hearings in Hobart last year to examine responses to allegations within the Church of England Boy’s Society (CEBS) and Anglican Diocese, including in Tasmania.
The report confirmed that there were networks of sexual perpetrators at the Boy’s Society who had knowledge of each other’s sexual offending, and in some instances facilitated the sexual abuse of children.
“Historically, allegations of child sexual abuse weren’t reported to the police either at all or in a timely way,” it said.
“The report concluded that most CEBS branches could operate in an autonomous and unregulated way and that the abuse often occurred on camps, sailing and fishing trips as well as overnight stays at rectories and private residences.”
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