AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
Evidence to a NSW inquiry has reveled senior clergy failed to act against a paedophile priest despite evidence they knew he’d been abusing girls for decades, and a warning this story contains graphic language.
Transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: More damning evidence of the Catholic Church’s failure to report serial child sex abusers has emerged at an inquiry in New South Wales.
The focus of today’s hearing was Father Denis McAlinden, a veteran paedophile who abused dozens of children.
In the witness box was one of the Church’s most senior office holders, Father Brian Lucas, currently the general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference. He’s played an integral role in the Church’s handling of paedophile priests and survivors have slammed him for failing to report offenders like McAlinden to the police.
Adam Harvey reports, and a warning: this story contains explicit language and sexual references.
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