MALTA
Times of Malta
Updated at 11.35am
Twenty-four new complaints were submitted to the Church body tasked with investigating cases of abuse and neglect, according to its annual report.
The Commission for Safeguarding this morning announced that it had received 12 new complaints involving minors and another 12 involving vulnerable adults. It did not specify the details of the complaints.
It also revealed that the commission had seven ongoing complaints involving minors, which had been carried over from 2015 and another five involving adults.
Court action, it said, had been taken on behalf of 335 people.
The commission said these had all been court applications filed under the Protection of Minors Act (2012).
The Safeguarding Commission was set up in 2015 taking over from its Response Team. It is tasked with assessing whether a person working for the Church was a risk to children or vulnerable adults.
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