VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA)
The Age
December 6, 2017
By Megan Neil and Brendan Wrigley
A “catastrophic institutional failure” by the Ballarat Catholic Church to take action on cases of sexual abuse led to more children being abused by its clergy, a royal commission has found.
The response within the diocese of Ballarat to abuse complaints spanning at least three decades was driven by a desire to avoid scandal and protect the church’s reputation, the report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse found.
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