AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
Joanne McCarthy
7 Feb 2017
THE percentage of Maitland-Newcastle Catholic priests who allegedly sexually assaulted children grew to its highest levels between 1990 and 2010, and to some of the highest levels in Australia, shocking new figures released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have shown.
More than one in 10 of the diocese’s priests between that period were the subject of child sex abuse allegations. During the same period about one in five Marist Brothers – the order that ran Maitland and Hamilton high schools – were accused of child sexual abuse.
Between 1990 and 2010 more than 30 per cent of the John of God Brothers order, which ran a home at Morisset until 2001 for intellectually disabled boys and boys with behavioural problems, were accused of sexually abusing children.
Between 1950 and 2015 a staggering 40 per cent of the St John of God Brothers were accused of abusing children, the highest percentage of alleged abusers in any Australian Catholic order or diocese.
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