AUSTRALIA
9 News
Australia is ready for new laws to hold institutions criminally responsible for child sexual abuse, a report says.
In a comprehensive examination of the country’s criminal justice system, the sex abuse royal commission says Australian law punishes individual offenders but not organisations.
The report outlines possible new offences to cover organisational criminal liability for institutional abuse, which would make it less likely an organisation could plead that it, too, was a victim of rogue behaviour.
That has been an argument put by some of the churches and charities examined during the commission’s 28 public hearings.
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