AUSTRALIA
The Canberra Times
Katie Burgess
The extent of abuse within the Anglican Church Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn has been revealed for the first time.
A month after the scale of abuse within the Australian Catholic Church was exposed, another survey conducted by the Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse has shown 1082 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse in the Anglican church and related institutions, with 1115 complaints made between 1980 and 2015.
Twenty-eight allegations of child sexual abuse were made in Anglican Church Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn.
Of those, 28 allegations were made in Diocese of Canberra and Goulburn, a jurisdiction that takes in the ACT and the south-eastern corner of NSW.
There were 22 alleged perpetrators identified in the region with a further two unable to be positively identified.
Unusually, one in four alleged perpetrators were women, the data revealed.
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