# child-sex-abuse - Monday 20 May, 2013
Australia is holding a government inquiry into how child sex abuse was handled, amid claims that about 620 children were abused by the Catholic Church since the 1930s.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 10 May, 2013
A 25-year-old man will appear in court this morning charged in connection with multiple sexual offences.
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# child-sex-abuse - Monday 22 April, 2013
Jennifer’s* son had to wait nine months after reporting his abuse before a HSE therapist was assigned.
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# child-sex-abuse - Monday 15 April, 2013
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HSE counselling services for children specifically exclude child sexual abuse as it is not considered a mental health issue.
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# child-sex-abuse - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
Gillard ordered the inquiry last year after a decade of growing pressure to investigate widespread allegations of paedophilia in schools and churches.
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# child-sex-abuse - Tuesday 12 March, 2013
“The image that Jimmy Savile has tried to portray over the years is someone who is deeply concerned with his fellow man; however, the thrust of this is entirely the opposite.”
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 22 February, 2013
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 1 February, 2013
Papers were lodged with the High Court late Wednesday.
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# child-sex-abuse - Thursday 20 December, 2012
Only five conservators worldwide are authorized to handle the Dead Sea Scrolls, but now, everyone can view them.
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# child-sex-abuse - Monday 10 December, 2012
The man, who has not been identified, is the sixth person arrested as part of the Scotland Yard investigation into sexual abuse in the 1970s.
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# child-sex-abuse - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Australia’s most senior Catholic cleric has welcomed a probe into paedophilia in the church as a way of separating “fact from fiction”.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 19 October, 2012
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# child-sex-abuse - Thursday 11 October, 2012
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The HSE’s Diocesan Audit Report of the safeguarding arrangements in the Catholic Diocese in Ireland was published this afternoon.
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# child-sex-abuse - Monday 8 October, 2012
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# child-sex-abuse - Saturday 22 September, 2012
The criminal offences were carried out mostly between the 1930s and 1980s, the Church in Victoria said.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 7 September, 2012
Lisa McInerney asks why, if a senior member of the Catholic Church thought paedophilia was ‘crossing the line in friendship’, does the same Church think it can guide people on how to love and who to marry?
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# child-sex-abuse - Thursday 6 September, 2012
The centre has also experienced an increase in the number of callers looking for help because of childhood sexual abuse.
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# child-sex-abuse - Wednesday 5 September, 2012
There was a higher incidence of abuse amongst those in religious orders and the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church of Ireland said this is worthy of further consideration.
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Summary of the main findings of the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church in Ireland into the diocese of Cork and Ross.
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Four dioceses and three religious orders have been scrutinised as part of an all-island review.
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# child-sex-abuse - Monday 23 July, 2012
The NCAA handed down the unprecedented penalties following an investigation into the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 22 June, 2012
Monsignor William Lynn is the first U.S. church official convicted of a crime for how he handled sex-abuse accusations.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 4 May, 2012
A report in a newspaper today said the Vatican had turned down Cardinal Brady’s resignation in 2010 – but the Catholic Church says this never happened.
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# child-sex-abuse - Thursday 3 May, 2012
Colm O’Gorman of One in Four also argues that Brady was following guidelines – in fact, he says there were clear processes enshrined in the church which he followed “to the letter”.
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# child-sex-abuse - Wednesday 2 May, 2012
However, he accepts that he was “part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society, and the Church.”
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Good morning to you! Here’s nine things you should know before 9am on this Wednesday.
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# child-sex-abuse - Saturday 28 April, 2012
The journalist and broadcaster had been criticised by the Vatican for his views on issues like child sex abuse and contraception.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 27 April, 2012
The Ombudsman for Children says the focus of the debate needs to move to abuse which takes place within the home.
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# child-sex-abuse - Thursday 9 February, 2012
The entire staff of the primary school – including teachers, the principal and canteen staff – were replaced after two former teachers were arrested on charges of abuse.
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# child-sex-abuse - Thursday 12 January, 2012
The church has said that priests who abused children will be required to pay damages to their victims.
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# child-sex-abuse - Saturday 17 December, 2011
Although the High Court ruled on the lifting of block on sections of Chapter 9 yesterday, the Government wants a few days to get support systems in place.
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Survey estimates that ONE in TEN Dutch children suffered some form of abuse. That doubles to ONE in FIVE for those who spent time in Catholic institution.
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# child-sex-abuse - Sunday 4 December, 2011
Brendan Boland has called for an apology from Cardinal Sean Brady in the wake of settlement reached this week over the Bishop of Armagh’s handling of allegations of abuse by Fr Brendan Smyth.
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# child-sex-abuse - Wednesday 30 November, 2011
As well as Raphoe, the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Chuch has published reports into five other dioceses across the island of Ireland.
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The Catholic Bishop of Raphoe in Donegal described the abuse committed against children as “horrific” and said that there had been “very poor judgements and mistakes made”.
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# child-sex-abuse - Monday 29 August, 2011
Cardinal Seán Brady has said that the seal of the confession is inviolable and that any attempt to undermine it is a challenge to the right of Catholics to freedom of religion.
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# child-sex-abuse - Friday 15 July, 2011
The Vatican is yet to respond to the findings of the Cloyne report, which found the Papal state less than co-operative with helping implement child protection guidelines. But should the Government send the Pope’s representative here packing?
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The Vatican’s response to allegations of clerical sex abuse in Cloyne was described as “unhelpful”.
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Shatter insists mandatory reporting will apply to priests despite Cardinal’s comments
Cardinal Seán Brady has said that the seal of the confession is inviolable and that any attempt to undermine it is a challenge to the right of Catholics to freedom of religion.
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