AUSTRALIA
The Age
April 19, 2012
Opinion
Josh Gordon
ALL those expecting Parliament’s six-member family and community development committee to exhaustively investigate the sexual abuse of children in Victoria by members of the Catholic clergy are going to be disappointed.
It may be the first time such an inquiry has been announced in Australia. It may go some distance towards exposing the horrors of abuse. And it may provide victims with a level of comfort.
But the investigation – by a relatively inexperienced committee already working on two other inquiries and which has been given just 12 months to report back – is unlikely to result in fresh prosecutions or pave the way for financial restitution as the nine-year Ryan inquiry did in Ireland.
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