AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1970s may have contributed to Christian Brothers sexually abusing children in a Victorian community, a religious superior says.
Brother Paul Nangle suggested the cultural change made it possible for things to occur that would not be accepted by society today, when asked to explain how so many Brothers could have abused children under his watch.
Br Nangle said the abuse and rape of children could never be justified but society became more relaxed about sexuality in the 1970s.
‘I wouldn’t say that it caused it,’ he said.
‘I’d be inclined to say that it might have contributed to creating a climate in which such things may have become possible.’
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