AUSTRALIA
Shepparton News
by BARCLAY WHITE FEBRUARY 07, 2017
The local diocese of the Catholic Church had the second highest percentage of alleged offenders in the country, new documents reveal.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse released details on the numbers of priests that were accused of child sexual abuse during a 60-year period.
From 1950 to 2010, the Diocese of Sandhurst, which includes Shepparton, Bendigo and Echuca, Wangaratta and Wodonga, 14.7 per cent of priests were alleged perpetrators.
The high percentage was second only to the Diocese of Sale, where 15.1 per cent of priests were alleged perpetrators of abuse during the same period.
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