Child sexual abuse inquiry in Australia

"Time is running out for the child sexual abuse inquiry to hear all the cases before it is scheduled to end, the chairman has revealed..."

"Case studies examined in more than a dozen public hearings, have revealed decades of shocking failures among some of Australia’s most respected institutions – including the Salvation Army, the Scouts and several arms of the Catholic church – to adequately respond to abuse of children in their care."

"It has been suggested by some people that the problems we are looking at are all ‘historical’, happened in the past and are unlikely to occur today," McClellan said. "An analysis of the institutions reported to us in private sessions confirms that, although it is possible that the level of abuse has diminished, the reality is that the potential remains."

"McClellan revealed that about a third of all institutions reported to the commission can be described as an industrial school, training school, reformatory, orphanage or children’s home. One third of complaints received were from people abused in a school or educational setting, and 16% in a place of worship, church youth group or seminary."

"It is only the child migrant children and children born out of wedlock who are no longer in institutions," said McClellan, who said "opportunities for abuse remain."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/12/peter-mcclellan-time-running-out-abuse