AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL AAP OCTOBER 03, 2013
LACK of oversight and accountability by the Catholic Church in handling child sex abuse complaints has led to mixed outcomes for victims, a church spokesman says.
Francis Sullivan, chief executive of the church’s Truth Justice and Healing Council has announced proposals to reform the approach to clerical sexual abuse.
The reforms would include a separation of the pastoral and compensation elements of the Towards Healing process, which deals with victims of Catholic Church abuse.
“There has been a contamination of the pastoral approaches by legal approaches,” Mr Sullivan told AAP on Thursday.
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