o sung wu,
There is an organization specifically set up to help the victims of church sexual abuse. I cannot recall what it is called right now, but they would be a source of good reliable information.

If I think of it I will post it and maybe they will get a run in the media soon as this is right up their alley. Could be Broken Rights or Broken Rites, worth a try?

O sung wo as it is with Banjo I enjoy your company here.
Not sure Banjo that group is Church based, it may be.
Poirot has it down to pat, but we must not let that become an excuse.
I know my words ruffle feathers, even in my own camp.
But think with me, it is my view this RC is as important as any we ever had.
And for the same reason I hang my ALP out to dry.
You can not rebuild on rubble.
First clean the site, remove all rubbish.
Then with conviction it will never be allowed to take place again, build new better and forever.
IF the RC had only been Catholic? it would have been seen as a witch hunt.
It will, in the end, open our eyes, MAKE GROWN MEN CRY, AND STILL IN PART BE WHITE WASHED.
nothing is ever completed,I have given evidence for police only to see an Irish judge find a guilty Irish offender not guilty, to the dismay of 5 she almost killed.
The Catholic Church needs this inquiry, you may ask why.
Well in truth its numbers are shrinking, its direction, in no sex , is causing damage.
Only6 the Muslim faith is not shrinking.
A renewed Church free not only of child sex offenders but the rampart corruption may grow again, let it too be free of Pell.

For once I agree with Poirot. As with safety legislation, one not only has to put rules in place, but must show evidence of enforcement. Pell has overseen the first part, but not the second.

When my kids were only 5, their primary school took them through "sex education" classes. This was not the birds and the bees, but an education of what was private, and what should result in instant reporting to a parent, teacher or other authority. This does not spoil their innocence, but equips them to deal with any inappropriate behaviour before it gets out of hand.

Similarly I believe that it should be a legal requirement to report abuse to the authorities, and that failure to do so should be prosecuted as obstruction of justice.

SOME not all of the original thoughts the whole thing is a Gillard plot has gone in to hiding.
We are better for that.
It will be long in to the first, maybe second term of the next Government before we see the final results.
We are not alone in running this inquiry.
The world has done so, or will.
While much more wide ranging than the Catholic Church, few can say with certainty they are not the center of this concern.
For increasing numbers this thought can not be avoided.
Are we right in giving special rights to religions increasing numbers believe have no true God no basis in fact to judge other than those they protect.

http://cathnews.acu.edu.au/207/174.php
Sydney's Archbishop George Pell told pilgrims at World Youth Day in Toronto "abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people".
During a catechesis session before a group of 500 young people, Pell was asked by a youth minister from Kentucky what Catholics should say when asked about the sex abuse crisis in the US Catholic church.
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Is this how they think and what they teach? Sexual abuse of a young person is considered a "moral scandal"?

TPP well put but Pell seems to be hiding some thing in his own past.
He will not face the courts but not survive this inquiry.