THE Australian Primate, Dr Philip Freier, Archbishop of Melbourne,
appearing before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to
Child Sexual Abuse, has warned against seeking simple answers about
abuse.
On the final day of the four-day hearing on the Anglican Church’s responses, a panel of six witnesses was questioned intensively about the causes of child sexual abuse in the Church, particularly focusing on clericalism. Dr Freier cautioned, however, that the propensity to abuse children was found in all forms of human community because “it is a deep thing in our human nature that we need to be very vigilant to protect against.”
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/24-march/news/world/no-easy-fixes-for-preventing-abuse-warns-freier
On the final day of the four-day hearing on the Anglican Church’s responses, a panel of six witnesses was questioned intensively about the causes of child sexual abuse in the Church, particularly focusing on clericalism. Dr Freier cautioned, however, that the propensity to abuse children was found in all forms of human community because “it is a deep thing in our human nature that we need to be very vigilant to protect against.”
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/24-march/news/world/no-easy-fixes-for-preventing-abuse-warns-freier
