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8 October 2017

Victims must come before studies of causes

Julie Robinson argues the years spent studying the causes for child abuse in the Catholic church would have been better spent supporting the victims of that abuse.
Former Catholic priests Peter Wilkinson and Des Cahill spent five years studying the reasons why there has been rampant child sex abuse in the Catholic church (“Melbourne study reveals how a global child sexual abuse tragedy occurred”, Herald 14/9).

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4933124/victims-must-come-before-studies-of-causes/