AUSTRALIA
Western Advocate
Eighteen complaints made in the Bathurst Diocese are included in a report released on Friday into child sex abuse complaints in the Anglican Church in Australia.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse Analysis of Complaints of Child Sexual Abuse Received by Anglican Church Dioceses in Australia report breaks down the complaint figures in each diocese.
It details child sex abuse complaints received by each diocese between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 2015, though the alleged abuse does not have to have happened during that specific time period.
The report shows that of the 18 complaints in the Bathurst Diocese, 22 per cent involved alleged physical abuse.
It also shows 75 per cent of the complainants in the Bathurst Diocese were male and 25 per cent were female.
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