AUSTRALIA
3News
[with video]
By Rachel Morton
Australia Correspondent
Melbourne’s Catholic Church has released the names of 29 priests it acknowledges are guilty of child sex abuse.
It comes the same week as an inquiry heard there was a systematic cover up of child sexual abuse, which went on for decades.
Cardinal George Pell is Australia’s most senior Catholic, and this week he fronted a Victorian inquiry into sex abuse, confessing to the sins of the Church.
He says the systemic cover up allowed paedophile priests to prey on innocent children. He says the fear of scandal led to the cover up, but in some cases where the Church should have acted, it did.
Cardinal Pell was the last witness at the inquiry into sex abuse within the Church and non-governmental organisations. He spent four-and-a-half hours giving evidence, during which time he acknowledged the cover up went on for decades.
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