AUSTRALIA
Border Mail
Melissa Cunningham
@MeljCunningham
6 Feb 2017
Almost one in ten priests in the Diocese of Ballarat had allegations of child sexual abuse levelled against them between 1950 and 2010, an inquiry heard.
The magnitude of the Catholic Church’s child sexual abuse scandal has been brought to light with a royal commission hearing almost 4500 people have made claims of child sexual abuse over the past 35 years.
Data gathered by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed between January 1980 and February 2015, found 4444 people have come forward with alleged incidents of child sexual abuse in relation to 93 Catholic Church authorities.
Ballarat was found to have 8.7 per cent of alleged perpetrators and was ranked seventh worst in Australia.
The Diocese of Sale was ranked worst in Australia.
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