WELLINGTON (NEW ZEALAND)
Radio New Zealand
January 2019
In Papua New Guinea, Fr Giorgio Licini said any cases of priests abusing children would be dealt with severely.
Fr Giorgio said an office had been established to deal with the matter.
Meanwhile, the head of the church in Fiji, Archbishop Peter Loy Chong, said his church had policy and protocols in place for suspected sexual offending amoung priests.
Peter Loy Chong.Peter Loy Chong. Photo: Pacific Theological College
“That has been the stand of the church and each conference of bishops has been instructed that we need to put in a policy for sexual abuse. We have a sexual abuse policy,” the archbishop said.
“To see to it that when somebody is a sexual offender, that procedures are carried out so that this person is interrogated and taken to task.”
Archbishop Peter Loy Chong and Fr Giorgio Licini’s comments come in the wake of global outrage over hundreds of cases of children abused by priests.
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