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| Catholic Church Schools and Homes with the Most Child Abuse Claims Revealed
ABC News
February 16, 2017
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-16/catholic-schools-with-highest-number-of-child-sex-abuse-claims/8277360
The Catholic Church has released numbers on how many child sexual abuse claims have been made against staff from their religious schools and orphanages, showing one home for boys faced 219 accusations.
The church identified 28 institutions that had 20 or more claims of child sexual abuse. You can search the data below.
The highest number of claims came from BoysTown at Beaudesert in Queensland, with 219 claims levelled at Catholic Church members working at the children's home.
This information is part of a large release of data revealing the extent of child sex abuse within the Australian Catholic Church that was done with cooperation from them as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The church surveyed 10 religious institutes and 75 church authorities to uncover the abuse data on priests, non-ordained brothers and sisters, and other church personnel who were employed between 1950 and 2009.
LocationStateNumber of claims
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Institution
Location
State
Number of claims
BoysTown
Beaudesert
Queensland
219
St Vincent's Orphanage, Clontarf
Waterford
Western Australia
152
Castledare Junior Orphanage
Wilson
Western Australia
142
St Joseph's Farm and Trade School
Bindoon
Western Australia
118
St Vincent De Paul's Orphanage
South Melbourne
Victoria
114
St Augustine's Boys' Home (1966-1987)
Geelong
Victoria
96
St Vincent's Orphanage
Nudgee
Queensland
76
St Joseph's Home
Neerkol
Queensland
71
Marist College Canberra
Pearce
ACT
63
St Mary's Agricultural School
Tardun
Western Australia
49
St Pius X College
Adamstown
New South Wales
46
St Vincent's Boys' Home
Westmead
New South Wales
45
Salesian College, Rupertswood
Sunbury
Victoria
44
St Ann's Special School
Marion
South Australia
42
Kendall Grange
Morisset Park
New South Wales
41
St Joseph's College
Geelong
Victoria
39
St Alipius' School
Ballarat East
Victoria
38
St Joseph's College
Hunters Hill
New South Wales
31
Boys' Town
Engadine
New South Wales
31
St Francis Xavier Mission
Wandering
Western Australia
30
St Stanislaus College
Bathurst
New South Wales
29
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage
Goodwood
South Australia
26
Cheltenham Residential Training Centre
Cheltenham
Victoria
23
St Leo's College
Box Hill
Victoria
21
Parramatta Marist High
Westmead
New South Wales
21
St Mary's Mission
New Norcia
Western Australia
20
Marist Brothers Hamilton
Hamilton
New South Wales
20
St Patrick's College
Ballarat
Victoria
20
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