Simon Danczuk says Goddard Inquiry will be “uncomfortable” but “necessary”

Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk has said a planned inquiry into allegations of historic child abuse in the town will be “uncomfortable” but “necessary”. http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/99486/cambridge-house-and-knowl-view-to-be-investigated-by-justice-lowell-goddard
His comments come after Justice Lowell Goddard, chairwoman of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, confirmed that two institutions in Rochdale will be included as part of the wide-ranging investigation.

http://www.rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/99501/simon-danczuk-says-goddard-inquiry-will-be-uncomfortable-but-necessary

Royals and MPs may give evidence in Westminster abuse probe over claims they had connections to paedophile gangs

MPs and royals could be ordered to give evidence over claims they had connections to paedophile gangs, it has been revealed.

Justice Lowell Goddard, the chairman of the landmark inquiry into historical child sex abuse, said politicians still serving at Parliament could be made to testify. Child abuse allegations against VIPs, the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, schools, local councils and 'certain people of public prominence associated with Westminster' will be among 12 areas for initial scrutiny, she announced.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3336241/Child-abuse-MPs-priests-celebrities-centre-new-multi-million-pound-inquiry-judge-reveals.html 

Serving MPs, spies along with Catholic and Anglican churches to be investigated

MPs and the Catholic and Anglican churches will be investigated over historical child sex abuse claims in England and Wales, it has been announced. Former politicians, spies, councils, schools and youth offender institutions are also being scrutinised by the independent inquiry led by Justice Lowell Goddard.

Speaking in central London the judge set out 12 different lines of inquiry that will each hold public hearings with victims, witnesses and experts. Both churches as well as Lambeth, Nottinghamshire and Rochdale councils will be among the first areas of focus.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-serving-mps-spies-along-with-catholic-and-anglican-churches-to-be-investigated-34242400.html 

‘Child sex victims’ to sue former Labour MP Lord Janner for £2.5million

Six men who claim the politician abused them years ago plot High Court civil action.  LORD Janner is being sued for £2.5million by six men who claim he abused them years ago.
Details of the High Court civil action are to be served on the 87-year-old ex-Labour MP next week. The compensation claim emerged as Justice Lowell Goddard separately confirmed her £18million VIP child abuse inquiry will target politicians, celebrities and the church.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6770498/Lord-Janner-hit-by-abuse-claims-and-potential-high-court-civil-action.html

Frustration over reporting and responding to sexual abuse at Melbourne Catholic school

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard evidence of sexual abuse at the Holy Family Parish Primary School in Doveton in Melbourne’s south-east and the experiences of survivors and teachers at the school who tried to speak out.
Abuse survivor Julie Stewart told the hearing she was sexually abused at the school by the parish priest, Father Peter Searson when she went to reconciliation in the confessional in 1984 and 1985. The former Principal of the Holy Family School Mr Graeme Sleeman told the Commission he recalled seeing Ms Stewart run away from the confessional and appearing very upset.

http://rct-law.com.au/legal-blog/2015/frustration-over-response-to-abuse-at-melbourne-catholic-school

Cardinal George Pell locked in two-front battle at the Vatican

Cardinal George Pell is fighting battles on two fronts, one financial and the other in the realm of church doctrine, an area in which he managed to irk Pope Francis.
The Australian cardinal is attacked in two new books by Italian journalists as a "spendthrift moraliser" who spent €500,000 ($730,000) in his first six months as Prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cardinal-george-pell-locked-in-twofront-battle-at-the-vatican-20151126-gl9bha.html 

Court hears claims priest abused boy in chapel

The trial of a priest for alleged indecent assault at Rockwell College near Cashel in Co Tipperary in the 1980s has heard more evidence from his alleged victim. Fr Henry Moloney, 77, who lives in Dublin, worked as a music teacher in the Co Tipperary secondary school at the time of the alleged assaults.
He has pleaded not guilty to eight counts of indecent assault against a student over 30 years ago. Fr Moloney denies the eight charges which relate to allegations of indecent assault in the early 1980s.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2015/1125/749169-court-abuse/ 

Spotlight’s’ the movie sadly has many Dorchester connections

The very first scene in “Spotlight,” the new movie detailing how The Boston Globe exposed the pedophile priest scandal, is set at the Area C-11 police station in Dorchester. It’s the mid-1970s. In one room, a priest sits alone; in a second room, another priest assures a woman that the cleric who had just sexually assaulted her children would be reassigned and kept away from other potential victims.
But just the opposite occurred. As the Globe would report in 2002, the Boston Catholic archdiocese took such predator priests and reassigned them to other parishes over and over again, placing more young children in their paths. And Cardinal Law knew this and participated in this cover-up.

http://www.dotnews.com/columns/2015/spotlight-s-movie-sadly-has-many-dorchester-connections 

Does George Pell still have questions to answer over his handling of child sexual abuse claims?

Cardinal George Pell is due to re-appear before the Royal Commission next month over his handling of allegations of child sexual abuse. One survivor of abuse gives evidence for the first time and claims George Pell downplayed the conduct of her abuser at a previous parliamentary inquiry.
Show transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Next month, Catholic Cardinal George Pell will make his much-anticipated appearance before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. New evidence about the case of Victorian predatory priest Peter Searson raises new questions for Cardinal Pell about how he managed allegations of sexual abuse.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-25/does-george-pell-still-have-questions-to-answer/6974426

Senior El Salvador priest fired over alleged sex with minors.

El Salvador's Roman Catholic Church said on Thursday it had fired a senior priest and former secretary of murdered Archbishop Oscar Romero after allegations that he had sex with a minor.
The Archdiocese of San Salvador said its preliminary investigation showed Jesus Delgado, 77, the third-ranking priest in the country's Catholic church, had sex with a minor aged between 9 and 17. The female victim, who is now 42, presented the allegations to the Salvadoran government.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3335526/Senior-El-Salvador-priest-fired-alleged-sex-minor.html 

Ten Catholic Priests Charged With Child Sex Abuse In Spain

Ten Spanish priests were charged with child sex abuse by a court in the city of Granada on Tuesday in a case that came to light after Pope Francis spoke to one of the victims last year, according to media reports. The Roman Catholic priests, along with two church workers, are suspected of sexually abusing four teenage boys between 2004 and 2007.
The priests had been suspended by the Archdiocese of Granada and were arrested by police in November last year. The suspects, who face a possible prison term of 20 years each if found guilty, are currently free on bail pending trial, according to media reports.  

http://www.ibtimes.com/ten-catholic-priests-charged-child-sex-abuse-spain-1797234

Archbishop failed to act on serious concerns about priest, inquiry told

A former Melbourne archbishop failed to act on complaints about a predator priest who carried a gun to school and made students kneel between his legs during confession, the child sex abuse inquiry has heard.
Monsignor Thomas Doyle, former head of the Catholic Education Office, testified on Thursday that Archbishop Frank Little did nothing about complaints concerning Doveton Parish priest Peter Searson, despite receiving written warnings about his increasingly erratic behaviour.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/sex-abuse-commission-archbishop-failed-to-act-on-serious-concerns-about-priest-inquiry-told-20151126-gl8hfs.html 

County council to discover on Friday if they will be included in investigation

Alan Rhodes will make “an unreserved apology” to survivors of child abuse if Nottinghamshire County Council is found to have failed in its duty of care.

The leader of the county council was speaking ahead of tomorrow’s announcement by Lowell Goddard, chair of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse, about which investigations will form the first part of the inquiry’s major work.

http://newarkadvertiser.co.uk/articles/news/Child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-County-council-to 

Stormont officials must give evidence over abuse inquiry victims

That excludes older victims, such as young women abused in Magdalene Laundry-type institutions. Stormont officials are to be compelled to give evidence to an Assembly committee on a controversy surrounding victims who fall outside the terms of the on-going Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.

Members of the committee that scrutinises the Office of First Minister and Deputy First Minister (OFMDFM) voted to trigger the exceptional step after a failed year-long quest to obtain information.

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/stormont-officials-must-give-evidence-over-abuse-inquiry-victims-34237409.html 

Inquiry heard Searson carried a gun to school and a fetish for children

Catholic church accused of sending pedophile priests - including man with a 'fetish' for children going into confession - to a Melbourne parish because it was POOR.  The Catholic Church sent a string of pedophile priests, from the 1970s to 1990s, to a poor Melbourne parish because it did not care about disadvantaged parishioners, an inquiry has heard.

One of the pedophile priests sent to Doveton, 34km south of Melbourne, left because he was having sex with a number of women, while his successor told a girl he indecently assaulted in confession 'the Lord forgives you', the child abuse royal commission heard.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3333053/Catholic-church-accused-sending-pedophile-priests-Holy-Family-Primary-School-Melbourne-poor.html