AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Ashley Gardiner
From:Herald Sun
April 17, 2012
UPDATE: THE Victorian Government has come under fire for ordering a parliamentary inquiry to investigate child sex abuse by the clergy, rather than a royal commission.
Premier Ted Baillieu and Attorney-General Robert Clark made the announcement at Parliament House at 1.15pm.
An inquiry was one of the key recommendations of an earlier inquiry into child protection by retired judge Phillip Cummins.
It also follows reports of a police investigation that has linked a number of suicides with sex abuse by priests.
The Cummins inquiry recommended that “a formal investigation should be conducted into the processes by which religious organisations response to the criminal abuse of children by religious personnel within their organisations.”
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