AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Almost 4500 people made allegations of child sexual abuse to Catholic authorities over 35 years, an inquiry has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse had sought information about claims received by the Australian Catholic Church between 1980 and 2015.
‘Between January 1980 and February 2015, 4444 people alleged incidents of child sexual abuse made to 93 Catholic Church authorities,’ counsel assisting Gail Furness SC said in her opening address at a commission hearing in Sydney on Monday.
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