AUSTRALIA
Tamut and Adelong Times
By Frances Vinall – February 18, 2017
The Archbishop of the Canberra-Goulburn Catholic Diocese, which includes Tumut, will testify at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse next week.
Archbishop Christopher Prowse will sit before Justice Peter McLennan on February 21, to discuss what safeguards the church has in place to protect children.
Records have shown that the Canberra-Goulburn Diocese had a rate of paedophile priests higher than the national average, with 8.5 per cent of their priests in the 2000s being alleged perpetrators.
In other words, one in twelve priests in this area are accused of having sexually abused children.
And since less than 20 per cent of survivors are estimated to have come forward, the true numbers could be higher still.
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