AUSTRALIA
The Australian
JOHN FERGUSON, VICTORIAN POLITICAL EDITOR THE AUSTRALIAN
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
THE Catholic Church will be heavily criticised today by the Victorian child sex abuse inquiry, which is set to back an overhaul of reporting arrangements.
The report is expected to find the church had protected its own reputation in past decades rather than dealing with the systemic issues and injury caused to the victims.
The report will add weight to calls for a fully independent complaints system to be set up to deal with abuse cases in non-government institutions.
But victims, while broadly supportive of the inquiry, will have to wait many months to determine what action the Napthine government will take because the national royal commission into the matter is still under way.
The Victorian parliament will today be handed the final report of the inquiry into the way non-government institutions handled child sex abuse cases and whether the law needs to be changed in order to prevent or minimise further abuses.
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