AUSTRALIA
Bunbury Mail
By Melissa Cunningham
Dec. 7, 2015
MORE victims and their parents are expected to appear at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in the coming days.
In her opening address on Tuesday, counsel assisting the royal commission Gail Furness said Bishop Ronald Mulkearns remains subject to a summons to appear before the commission, but is receiving palliative care and is unfit to give evidence.
Between January 1980 and February 2015, 140 claims of sexual abuse made against Ballarat priests and religious operating within the Diocese of Ballarat.
“Should his health improve sufficiently royal commission intends to call him to give evidence in public,” she said.
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