AUSTRALIA
NEWS.com.au
NEW laws to jail fiends who groom children to molest, and church leaders who cover it up, will be introduced next year.
The reforms follow Wednesday’s tabling in State Parliament of a historic report on child abuse, which revealed police were investigating 135 new cases.
Tears flowed as victims stood in the rain to lend their voices in support of the report.
The report slammed leaders of churches and non-government organisations that failed vulnerable children during decades of “betrayal beyond comprehension”.
The report, following an 18-month inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other non-government organisations, found “several thousand victims (were) criminally abused in non-government organisations”, many of whom had been denied justice.
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