AUSTRALIA
SBS
As the Royal Commission enters its third week into a hearing about the case of former altar boy John Ellis, SBS takes a look at what’s being examined and what’s to come.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse was launched in 2013 to examine how certain institutions responded to allegations and instances of child sexual abuse.
The six-member commission is chaired by Justice Peter McClellan.
The other five commissioners are former Queensland Police Commissioner, Bob Atkinson, Family Court Judge and former Victorian Coroner, Jennifer Coate, Productivity Commissioner, Robert Fitzgerald, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Helen Milroy and former Senator for Western Australia, Andrew Murray.
The date for the final report from the commission is yet to be announced but is expected to be around the end of 2015.
The schedule of the commission includes private sessions in capital cities and regional areas as well as public hearings on specific case studies.
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