AUSTRALIA
Oberon Review
23 Mar 2017
THE Anglican Church has admitted it tried to silence child sex abuse victims and cared more about its reputation than those who had been harmed.
Church records show 1082 people have made complaints about 569 alleged perpetrators in the Anglican Church in Australia, which includes 18 complaints in the Bathurst Diocese.
The church has paid nearly $31 million in compensation to victims, data released by the child sex abuse royal commission on Friday showed.
Since December 2015, the Bathurst Diocese has paid more than $750,000 in redress to abused people, Bishop Ian Palmer said in his report in the October 2016 edition of Anglican e-news.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse Analysis of Complaints of Child Sexual Abuse Received by Anglican Church Dioceses in Australia report breaks down the complaint figures in each diocese.
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