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The Catholic Church child protection watchdog has fully reviewed the responses of eight religious congregations to allegations of sexual abuse of children in their care.
The National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church said the timeframe for reporting allegations against congregation members to the civil authorities was “variable up until 2009”.
However, it said it has improved considerably since the introduction of new church standards that year.
Commenting on the audits, the board’s chief executive, Teresa Devlin, said the religious congregations’ support for complainants continues to be inconsistent.
The audit reports relate to: the Presentation Sisters, the Vincentian Fathers, the Redemptorists, the Sisters of St Louis, the Sisters of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, The Pallottines, The Mill Hill Fathers and the Missionaries of Africa also known as the White Fathers.
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