AUSTRALIA
SBS
Source: AAP
10 JUL 2015
The Catholic Church’s insurance company has been given a week by a royal commission to produce almost 2000 files that could show exactly what the church knew about 63 abusers in its ranks.
At a directions hearing in Sydney on Friday Justice Peter McClellan, chair of the child sex abuse royal commission, ordered Catholic Church Insurers provide a list of relevant material by Monday, and the files by next Friday.
The hearing was called when CCI failed to meet the deadline of a previous summons and produce all the requested files. It has handed over some folders.
The commission wants to know what the insurer found when it carried out its own investigations into whether the Catholic Church had prior knowledge priests and other clergy were abusing children.
In the 1990s, CCI set up a dedicated sexual abuse insurance policy to cover the church for alleged sexual abuse claims going back more than 20 years.
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