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28 July 2016

Pedophile sex ring scandal rocks Anglican Church of Australia

On Epiphany Sunday, 2002, the Boston Globe shone its "Spotlight" on the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston and revealed that there was a protected system in place which allowed pedophile priests to remain within the Archdiocese as they were shuffled from one unsuspecting parish to another, and all the while the number of their sexually-abused victims mounted.
Initially, 87 Catholic priests were identified as The Globe's "Spotlight" pointed its laser beam on them; eventually 249 members of the clergy were exposed, showing they failed in living out their vow of celibacy with more than one thousand vulnerable children.

http://www.virtueonline.org/pedophile-sex-ring-scandal-rocks-anglican-church-australia