The 189 recommendations handed down by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have sparked a heated debate within the Griffith community.
If the recommendations were to be taken on board by the Catholic Church, it would see the ‘seal’ of the religious confessional tossed aside, meaning priests would be forced to report any child sexual abuse revealed to them, currently not required by law.
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