FIJI
Fiji Times
Aqela Susu
Thursday, June 02, 2016
THE head of the Catholic Church of Fiji, Archbishop Peter Loy Chong, has urged church leaders to adopt strict policies and guidelines on disciplining church pastors involved in sexual offences.
Archbishop Chong made the comment after the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions released sexual offence statistics for last month.
The statistics revealed there were 46 sexual offence cases reported during the month of May, 29 of which were rape cases.
Of those 46 separate incidents, 16 people were charged, two of whom were church pastors who had committed serious sexual offences.
“The only advice now is for pastors and other churches to have strict guidelines because pastors have certain amount of power over people and people always have trust in them,” Archbishop Chong said in an interview yesterday.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.