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The Catholic Church child protection watchdog has found that eight religious congregations often failed to contact directly people making child sexual abuse allegations against priests, brothers and nuns and their support for complainants continues to be inconsistent.
In audits of the congregations, the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church also found the time frame for reporting allegations against congregation members to the civil authorities was variable up until 2009.
However, it has improved considerably since the introduction of new church standards.
This latest tranche of audits by the NBSCCC examines the responses of eight religious congregations to allegations of abuse against their members.
The congregations are 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.
It said allegations were made against a number of priests ministering abroad by children both in Ireland and in missionary countries.
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