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| UpdatedThe Catholic Church reveals which schools and children's homes had more than 20 claims of child sexual abuse — one institution alone faced 219 accusations.
Topics: catholic, schools, child-abuse, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, australia, hamilton-2303, new-norcia-6509, box-hill-3128, cheltenham-3192, goodwood-5034, bathurst-2795, wandering-6308, engadine-2233, hunters-hill-2110, ballarat-3350, morisset-2264, marion-5043, sunbury-3429, westmead-2145, adamstown-2289, tardun-6628, pearce-2607, nudgee-4014, geelong-3220, south-melbourne-3205, bindoon-6502, wilson-6107, waterford-6152, beaudesert-4285
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| UpdatedA "wickedly manipulative" serial paedophile priest is sentenced to stay behind bars until at least 2026 for the sexual abuse of boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst in central west NSW.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, sydney-2000, bathurst-2795
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| UpdatedClose to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sydney-2000
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An Uber driver is found guilty by a Sydney court of raping a female passenger, after picking her up at a Kings Cross nightclub in 2015.
Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, sydney-2000, kings-cross-2011
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| UpdatedPrivate schools Brisbane Grammar and St Paul's School harboured sexual abuse and accused children of lying rather than properly investigating allegations against school counsellor Kevin Lynch, a royal commission finds.
Topics: sexual-offences, royal-commissions, secondary-schools, courts-and-trials, child-abuse, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedOne of Victoria's most prestigious private schools, Geelong Grammar, says it has made changes to its policies and will learn from its failings in handling allegations of child sexual abuse.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, geelong-3220
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Tasmanian survivors of sexual abuse linked to the Anglican Church plan to launch legal action after damming findings by the royal commission.
Topics: child-abuse, anglicans, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, tas
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| UpdatedTasmania's Anglican Bishop takes disciplinary action against Philip Newell — a bishop in Tasmania for 18 years — who was found to have allowed a man he knew had sexually abused boys to stay in the church.
Topics: child-abuse, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, anglicans, tas
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| UpdatedPolice allege a 21-year-old male nursing student repeatedly raped, assaulted and threatened a woman in his care north of Brisbane between July and November last year.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, assault, brisbane-4000
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Police doorknock homes in Port Adelaide after a 43-year-old woman was sexually assaulted in her front yard.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, port-adelaide-5015, sa
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| UpdatedThe Anglican Church expresses surprise and victims' families are outraged as an 85-year-old former priest is sentenced to two years in prison for sexually abusing five boys over a 30-year period in Western Australia.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, wa, perth-6000
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A carer who encouraged sexual acts between two intellectually disabled people and then filmed them is jailed for his crimes, including rape.
Topics: sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, disabilities, carers, sa, adelaide-5000
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Violence spreads in Paris's northern suburbs for a fourth night and French police arrest more than a dozen people, amid accusations police officers raped and beat a man they were detaining.
Topics: police, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, unrest-conflict-and-war, france
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A Brisbane man who held down his friend's shoulders while another man sexually assaulted him at an Australia Day party is spared jail for the offence, which was only discovered by the victim when video of the abuse appeared on social media.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedThe Australian entertainer is found not guilty of two counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault, with the jury failing to reach a verdict on four remaining charges, leaving the prosecution to decide if it will pursue another trial.
Topics: sexual-offences, crime, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe parents of a five-year-old boy were not told by a childcare centre of his alleged indecent assault by a carer at the business, an Adelaide court hears.
Topics: courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, adelaide-5000, sa
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Audio recordings from hundreds of new surveillance cameras in the Moreton Bay region will target "creepy" characters and be available to police if requested by warrant, Mayor Allan Sutherland says.
Topics: local-government, sexual-offences, crime-prevention, activism-and-lobbying, public-sector, redcliffe-4020
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| UpdatedA former West Australian Anglican priest due to be sentenced for sexually abusing five boys has his case adjourned until Friday after he claimed he did not realise his lawyer had dropped him, drawing the ire of a Perth judge.
Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, wa, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAn expert witness from the United States tells a royal commission hearing the Catholic Church and Pope were more concerned with covering up, rather than confronting, sexual abuse allegations.
Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, community-and-society, sydney-2000, nsw
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The Catholic Church confirms more than $200,000 has been paid to victims of sex abuse perpetrated by members of the Diocese of Sale, in eastern Victoria.
Topics: royal-commissions, laws, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, sale-3850
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| UpdatedIn 1978, a group of Catholic schoolboys was called to make a moral decision. The night before, a Marist brother had tried to assault one of them. Those boys were better disciples than the princes of their Church. That is a triumph and a tragedy, writes Chris Uhlmann.
Topics: religion-and-beliefs, catholic, royal-commissions, sexual-offences, assault, canberra-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedA former teacher is charged in Goulburn with child sex offences allegedly involving two students dating back to the 1980s.
Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, crime, goulburn-2580, mulgoa-2745, nsw, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedThe Australian Catholic Church releases "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes. Here's what you need to know.
Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, australia
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| UpdatedOver the course of 60 years, 40 per cent of the members of the Brothers of St John of God had allegations of child sexual abuse made against them, but who are they and what role do does the order play in society today?
Topics: sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, royal-commissions, christianity, vic, nsw, australia, wa
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| UpdatedOne WA diocese had 21.5 per cent of all priests accused of child sex abuse, three times the national average, according to figures released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, religion-and-beliefs, sexual-offences, new-norcia-6509, wa