Australia Child Abuse Inquiry Releases Report, Outlines ‘Serious Failings’

Australia Child Abuse Inquiry Releases Report, Outlines ‘Serious Failings’
Members of the Care Leavers Australasia Network (CLAN) hold up a banner thanking the Commission as they await the final report from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse outside Government House in Canberra, Australia, Dec. 15, 2017. AAP/Lukas Coch/via Reuters
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SYDNEY–Australia should introduce a law forcing religious leaders to report child abuse, including Catholic priests told of abuse in the confessional, said a report on Friday which detailed institutional abuse.

The 17-volume document from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse marks the end of one of the world’s biggest inquiries into child abuse and leaves it to the government to decide whether to enact its recommendations.