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11 February 2017

Campaigner shocked at number implicated locally in Royal Commission

Seventeen people associated with Catholic religious orders  have been accused of abusing children in the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn over six decades, analysis of the church's own data has revealed.
The ACT and southern NSW diocese also had an above average concentration of religious accused of sexually abusing children, with two orders implicated in abuse cases in Canberra counted among the most notorious.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/one-in-12-priests-accused-of-abuse-in-catholic-archdiocese-of-canberragoulburn-over-60-years-20170206-gu6al0.html