AUSTRALIA
9 News
AAP
The Christian Brothers knew they may have pedophiles among them back in 1919.
More than 20 per cent of all Christian Brothers in Australia have now been revealed to have sexually abused children.
Six hundred religious brothers from the Christian Brothers and other Catholic orders are alleged to have been pedophiles, according to world-first data released by the child abuse royal commission on Monday.
Like the Christian Brothers, more than 20 per cent of Marist Brothers and Salesians of Don Bosco have been the subject of child sex abuse claims to the Catholic Church in Australia.
For the St John of God Brothers, it is 40 per cent.
Of the Catholic abuse cases already investigated by the royal commission, the accounts given by survivors of institutions run by the Christian Brothers in Western Australia have been “particularly harrowing”.
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