AUSTRALIA
NZWeek
By Joseph A. Cambra Updated 16/09/2013
A national inquiry conducted by Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse opened its first public hearing Monday in Sydney for a long-time issue of church and institutional child sexual abuse cases, a media release from the commission said Monday.
The inquiry was commissioned by the federal government to investigate allegations of systemic abuse within religious and state-run institutions, local media ABC News said.
New South Wales (NSW) state’s Supreme Court judge Peter McClellan has been appointed to lead the royal commission into national child sexual abuse cases earlier this year, with the support from five other commissioners.
According to the chief executive of the commission, Janette Dines, many stories hearing during the inquiry will shock people.
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