AUSTRALIA
ABC – Lateline
[with video]
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 04/07/2012
Reporter: Laetitia Lemke
The Catholic Church has reopened internal investigations after Four Corners revealed documents claiming a priest confessed to the abuse of children.
Transcript
TONY JONES, PRESENTER: Shocking revelations of a bungled child sex abuse inquiry have persuaded the Catholic Church to reopen investigations.
The ABC’s Four Corners this week revealed documents that allege a priest confessed to Church officials he had been abusing children, but that information wasn’t passed on to police.
New South Wales detectives are now involved and more than 30 years on, they’re urging victims to come forward.
Laetitia Lemke reports.
LAETITIA LEMKE, REPORTER: It’s the confession the Catholic Church said never took place. This letter, aired on Four Corners, details the abuse of several Moree boys at the hands of a local priest in the 1980s.
The priest, who for legal reasons is known only as “Father F”, is alleged to have told a Church panel about his abuses in 1992.
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