AUSTRALIA
The Age
June 8, 2013
Barney Zwartz
Religion editor, The Age.
The Catholic Church has revised its figures on clergy sexual abuse victims in Victoria, now saying it has identified 849 victims and 269 offenders.
The church submitted the new figures on Thursday afternoon to the Victorian inquiry into how the churches handled clergy sexual abuse, replacing the statistics in its original submission, Facing the Truth. That cited 618 victims.
The offenders include 98 priests, 114 brothers, nine nuns and 42 laypeople of whom two are female. There are two seminarians and four are unknown.
Church spokesman Shane Mackinlay said the revised figures were the result of collating all five submissions to the inquiry by church ”entities”: the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses, the Christian Brothers, and the Salesian and St John of God orders.
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