Cardinal Pell
Convicted Paedophile & former Catholic Priest- Gerald Risdale
Convicted Paedophile & former Catholic Priest- Robert Charles Best
He knew exactly what was going on and his solution was to simply transfer these sex offenders to other areas where they continued on their molesting with ways with the apparent collusion, of senior members of the Catholic Church.
Convicted Paedophile & former Catholic Priest- Edward Dowlan
Make no mistake, the Catholic Church is just a shambolic front now, exposed for the vile and secretive child sex ring it is and has become, for the organisation was mainly used to prey on and fuck young children in its care, by at least 7% of the priests in Australia, during the latter half of the twentieth century. Over 4000 of them just from the 1960's until the present day. By any yardstick, these are shocking figures, and they only counted molestations where one priest had molested over twenty boys. There are many, many more unrecorded molestations.
How absolutely disgraceful, as was Cardinal Pell's performance at the Royal Commission into Child Abuse in Australian Youth Institutions? What a dishonest, vile creature of a man he is, one of the Devils right- hand men I reckon. The Church also did all in it's power to get out of paying proper compensation, yet they only exist from donations from a very generous, and foolish Australian public.
So if you feel you should visit the Pope, please don't idolise him and become one of his weak, sneaky, child molesting sycophants, draw up a placard and hold it up high-
"THE CATHOLIC CHURCH LIKES TO FUCK YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEN TRY AND COVER IT UP! THE POPE IS A FRAUD! (Just ask Jesus).
If you're not doing that, I reckon you wholly support Paedophiles, you won't get to heaven like that, I can assure you. Forget the Pope, the whole organisation was not what you thought it was, it has absolutely no credibilty, just a lot of money, and a heap of dishonest, sycophantic ponitificators in weird colored suits, who love young boy-cock, fucking weirdos!!!
The following are the official statistics on Child Molestation in Australia by the Catholic Church- alas, the pen is mightier than the sword! Information courtesy of ABC News Australia.
The Catholic Church spent $1.5 million dollars of donated parishioners funds to defend this child-fucking maggot!
Robert Best: Christian Brother sentenced to 10 years' jail for sexual abuse of boys
Updated
Convicted paedophile and Christian Brother Robert Best has been sentenced to 10 years and five months in jail after admitting to the sexual abuse of a further 20 boys in his care.
Best had earlier been sentenced to 14 years and nine months in jail in 2011 for similar crimes against 11 boys over a 20-year period from the late 1960s at several Victorian schools.
The 76-year-old admitted last month to indecent assault charges against 20 boys, who were mostly aged between eight and 11 years old.
Judge Geoffrey Chettle described Best's behaviour as "disgusting and abhorrent" as he imposed the sentence.
"You caused lifelong misery to many people," he said.
"I accept it is highly likely that you will die in prison."
Best's earliest release date will be in 2027, when he will be 86 years old.
Victims abused in front of other students, court told
The court heard Best "regularly and persistently" abused boys on school grounds, including at the sick bay, in his office and in front of other students.
In one case, the court heard Best assaulted a boy after asking him to stay behind after class.
Judge Chettle said many of Best's victims suffered from long-lasting shame, suicidal thoughts, isolation and problems with drugs and alcohol as a result of the abuse.
Several of Best's victims were in tears as the crimes were read out. Best stared straight ahead.
The County Court had heard the sexual abuse occurred between 1968 and 1988 at four schools — St Alipius at Ballarat, St Leo's at Box Hill, St Joseph's at Geelong and St Bernard's at Essendon.
Best's guilty pleas confirmed the total number of his victims was 31.
Keith Davidson, 57, was about 11 years old when he was abused by Best at St Alipius Primary School.
He said he would try to move on after the sentence.
"It's never long enough," he said.
"I'm trying to still deal with this and … in court, I fell into a big black hole again. It doesn't matter how hard you try, it just gets you and pulls you back into it."
Best an 'obvious disgrace' to Christian Brothers
The Christian Brothers Oceania Province again apologised for Best's crimes in a statement.
"Robert Best has committed offences that represent the most grievous betrayal of the trust of innocent children and their families," the statement said.
"To those who have suffered abuse, we apologise to you and your loved ones without reservation.
The court previously heard that the Catholic Church order was still funding the cost of Best's legal defence.
The child sex abuse royal commission was told in 2015 that the Church had already paid more than $1.5 million in legal fees for Best.
Judge Chettle said Best had not resigned from the Christian Brothers, nor had been asked to despite being "an obvious disgrace to that order".
Best joined the Christian Brothers order in February 1959 and was aged between 28 and 47 at the time of the offending.
He taught in secondary schools between 1988 and his retirement from teaching in 1994, and during that time did not abuse students.
Catholic Church schools and homes with the most child abuse claims revealed
Updated about 6 hours ago
The Catholic Church has released numbers on how many child sexual abuse claims have been made against staff from their religious schools and orphanages, showing one home for boys faced 219 accusations.
The church identified 28 institutions that had 20 or more claims of child sexual abuse. You can search the data below.
The highest number of claims came from BoysTown at Beaudesert in Queensland, with 219 claims levelled at Catholic Church members working at the children's home.
This information is part of a large release of data revealing the extent of child sex abuse within the Australian Catholic Church that was done with cooperation from them as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The church surveyed 10 religious institutes and 75 church authorities to uncover the abuse data on priests, non-ordained brothers and sisters, and other church personnel who were employed between 1950 and 2009.
LocationStateNumber of claims
Institution
|
Location
|
State
|
Number of claims
|
BoysTown
|
Beaudesert
|
Queensland
|
219
|
St Vincent's Orphanage, Clontarf
|
Waterford
|
Western Australia
|
152
|
Castledare Junior Orphanage
|
Wilson
|
Western Australia
|
142
|
St Joseph's Farm and Trade School
|
Bindoon
|
Western Australia
|
118
|
St Vincent De Paul's Orphanage
|
South Melbourne
|
Victoria
|
114
|
St Augustine's Boys' Home (1966-1987)
|
Geelong
|
Victoria
|
96
|
St Vincent's Orphanage
|
Nudgee
|
Queensland
|
76
|
St Joseph's Home
|
Neerkol
|
Queensland
|
71
|
Marist College Canberra
|
Pearce
|
ACT
|
63
|
St Mary's Agricultural School
|
Tardun
|
Western Australia
|
49
|
St Pius X College
|
Adamstown
|
New South Wales
|
46
|
St Vincent's Boys' Home
|
Westmead
|
New South Wales
|
45
|
Salesian College, Rupertswood
|
Sunbury
|
Victoria
|
44
|
St Ann's Special School
|
Marion
|
South Australia
|
42
|
Kendall Grange
|
Morisset Park
|
New South Wales
|
41
|
St Joseph's College
|
Geelong
|
Victoria
|
39
|
St Alipius' School
|
Ballarat East
|
Victoria
|
38
|
St Joseph's College
|
Hunters Hill
|
New South Wales
|
31
|
Boys' Town
|
Engadine
|
New South Wales
|
31
|
St Francis Xavier Mission
|
Wandering
|
Western Australia
|
30
|
St Stanislaus College
|
Bathurst
|
New South Wales
|
29
|
St Vincent de Paul Orphanage
|
Goodwood
|
South Australia
|
26
|
Cheltenham Residential Training Centre
|
Cheltenham
|
Victoria
|
23
|
St Leo's College
|
Box Hill
|
Victoria
|
21
|
Parramatta Marist High
|
Westmead
|
New South Wales
|
21
|
St Mary's Mission
|
New Norcia
|
Western Australia
|
20
|
Marist Brothers Hamilton
|
Hamilton
|
New South Wales
|
20
|
St Patrick's College
|
Ballarat
|
Victoria
|
20
|
The Australian Catholic Church has released "grim" data revealing 7 per cent of priests, working between 1950 and 2009, have been accused of child sex crimes.
The worst-offending institutions, by proportion of their religious staff, have been shown to be the orders of brothers, who often run schools and homes for the most vulnerable of children.
This is the most substantial dataset released to date about the extent of child sex abuse within the Australian Catholic Church, and was done with cooperation from them as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The church surveyed 10 religious institutes and 75 church authorities to uncover the abuse data on priests, non-ordained brothers and sisters, and other church personnel who were employed between 1950 and 2009.
4,444 alleged cases recorded
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Counsel Gail Furness, SC, said 4,444 alleged child sex abuse incidents were recorded in the survey.
Ninety per cent of the victims were boys, with their average age at time of abuse being 11-and-a-half years old.
Girls were only 10-and-a-half years old on average when they were abused.
7pc of Australian Catholic priests accused
Seven per cent of priests ministering in the 60-year period have been accused of child sex offences.
This is an even starker figure to similar research carried out in the US which found that from 1950 through June 2015, 5.6 per cent of the 116,153 priests who worked have been accused of child sexual abuse.
This map shows the weighted average percentage of accused-perpetrator priests over 60 years. Some dioceses are not included in the map, or the data provided.
Worst dioceses in Australia
Archdiocese/diocese
|
State
|
Weighted average of priests that were accused perpetrators
|
Diocese of Sale
|
VIC
|
15.1%
|
Diocese of Sandhurst
|
VIC
|
14.7%
|
Diocese of Port Pirie
|
SA
|
14.1%
|
Diocese of Lismore
|
NSW
|
13.9%
|
Diocese of Wollongong
|
NSW
|
11.7%
|
Worst Catholic religious institutes in Australia
The Benedictine Community of New Norcia is about two hours north-east of Perth in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia, and holds a monastery that was founded in 1847.
It is one of the oldest monasteries in Australia, and has the worst average of child sex abuse complaints against its priests and personnel.
Institute
|
Weighted average of priests that were accused perpetrators
|
Benedictine Community of New Norcia
|
21.5%
|
Salesians of Don Bosco
|
17.2%
|
Marist Fathers - Society of Mary
|
13.9%
|
Pallottines - Society of the Catholic Apostolate
|
13.7%
|
Vincentians - The Congregation of the Mission
|
8.0%
|
Catholic monasteries and orders were the worst offenders
Who are the Brothers of St John of God?
Alarming statistics were found within the non-ordained ranks of brothers scattered throughout Australia who often ran, and still run, schools and orphanages.
Overall, there were 1,880 alleged perpetrators identified:
· 597 (32 per cent) were non-ordained religious brothers
· 572 (30 per cent) were priests
· 543 (29 per cent) were lay people
· 96 (5 per cent) were non-ordained religious sisters
· 72 (4 per cent) of known alleged perpetrators, their religious status was not known.
The worst five brotherhoods (by percentage)
Non-ordained religious order
|
Weighted percentage of alleged perpetrators 1950-2009
|
Total members of the order
|
Areas where the orders have faced allegations
|
40.4%
|
112
|
VIC (Lilydale and Cheltenham orphanages), NSW (Kendall Grange Morisset) and New Zealand (Marylands School).
|
|
Marist Brothers
|
20.4%
|
1,055
|
NSW (St Carthage's Parish Primary School Lismore, St Thomas More Primary School Campbelltown, Marist Bros Primary School Eastwood, Marist Sacred Hearts Mosman), QLD (St Augustine's Marist Brothers' College in Cairns), ACT (Marist College, Canberra)
|
Christian Brothers
|
22.0%
|
1,610
|
VIC (St Patrick's College — St Alipius Primary School Ballarat, St Vincent's Boys Orphanage in South Melbourne, Chanel College and St Augustine's Boys Home, Geelong), WA (Boys homes in Bindoon, Castledare, Clontarf, Tardun)
|
Salesians of Don Bosco
|
21.9%
|
247
|
VIC (St Josephs College Ferntree Gully, Rupertswood College Sunbury, Salesian College at Chadstone), NSW (Boys Town Sydney, St John Bosco College in Engadine), SA (Salesian College, Adelaide), WA (St Mark's College, Port Pirie)
|
De La Salle Brothers
|
13.8%
|
492
|
QLD (Boys Town Brisbane, De La Salle College at Scarborough ), NSW (De La Salle College Ashfield), VIC (De La Salle College Malvern)
|
The worrying figures from the 2000s
In the full report there are datasets that appear to show there is very little abuse happening in the last decade of survey — the 2000s.
However, in her opening address, Ms Furness revealed some statics about victims which show how to take those statistics with a grain of salt.
Ms Furness said the average time it took between a victim being abused and reporting it, or seeking redress, is 33 years — a very long time and an explanation for low figures in the 2000s.
There is one dataset that can show us whether or not accused priests and brothers were pushed out of the diocese or institution, and that is a much more worrying picture and reveals how ineffective victims' claims about child sex abuse may have been.
This chart shows the percentage of priests or church personnel who were working in these areas or orders even when claims had been made against them.
The chosen four below all had a percentage greater than 10 per cent in the final decade reported.
Institutions with the fewest abuse claims
Ms Furness noted some institutions that had the lowest reports of abusers in their houses of worship.
Notably, the Sisters of Mercy Brisbane and the order founded by Saint Mary MacKillop, Australia's only saint, had the lowest instances of reported abuse.
The Diocese of Adelaide had the lowest reported figures of a Catholic diocese.
Catholic institution
|
Weighted percentage of alleged perpetrators 1950-2009
|
Total members of the order
|
Areas where the orders have faced allegations
|
Sisters of Mercy Brisbane
|
0.3%
|
955
|
Unknown
|
Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (Founded by Saint Mary MacKillop)
|
0.6%
|
3,122
|
Unknown
|
Dominican Friars
|
2.1%
|
155
|
QLD (St Martin de Porres girls' primary school), SA (Blackfriars Priory School, Saint Lawrence's parish)
|
Diocese of Adelaide
|
2.4%
|
222
|
Unknown
|
Editor's note February 8, 2017: This story was first published associating the Sisters of Mercy Brisbane with allegations at the Neerkol Orphanage. We have deleted this reference as the Rockhampton orphanage was associated with the larger Sisters of Mercy, not the Brisbane order, and closed in 1978.
What the data doesn't tell us
Despite the data covering members of church institutions between 1950 and 2009, the claims data it was matched with only covers claims made between January 1, 1980 and February 28, 2015, so claims reported before then are not included.
It only shows where victims sought redress, like compensation, or where the church investigated and substantiated the claim — it does not include complaints made that did not have any follow-up or investigation.
More on this story:
The data reports how many Catholic personnel have been reported, but it does not go into detail how prolific the accused paedophiles were and this presents a number of problems.
For example, the Maitland-Newcastle diocese is not on the commission's top list of offenders, however Bishop Bill Wright says the region had three or four very prolific offenders.
"If you presented the figures a different way — how many victims, survivors of abuse are there — that would look a bit different," he said.
"But we have a very considerable number of people who have been abused, but many of them by the same three or four people."
The report also leaves out more details on the victims and if they suffered abuse by multiple church personnel.
The prevalence of alleged abusers is not calculated for all Catholic Church authorities who were surveyed, another important piece of data missing from the report.
The survey sought responses from 75 authorities but only shows results for 26 of those authorities. Any authority with fewer than 20 claims of abuse has been left out.
Catholic Church paid out $276m over child sexual abuse claims, royal commission hears
Updated
The Catholic Church has paid more than $276 million in claims to thousands of victims of child sexual abuse, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
Close 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.
Counsel assisting the commission, Gail Furness SC, told the Sydney hearing that figure included compensation, treatment, legal and other costs.
Of the total amount, $258.8 million was monetary compensation of about $91,000 per claim.
"The Christian Brothers who, at the relevant time operated a number of residential facilities, reported the highest number of payments," Ms Furness told the hearing.
"This order made 763 payments, amounting to $48.5 million, with an average payment of $64,000.
If you or anyone you know needs help:
Today, the Christian Brothers issued a statement apologising to victims of abuse and their families.
"To those who were subjected to abuse at any of our facilities we express again our profound sorrow and enduring regret that their trust was so grievously betrayed," the statement said.
"On behalf of all Christian Brothers we extend without reservation our sincere apology to the victims of abuse and their families.
"We will continue to work with victims to try to repair the damage caused, with personal apology, the provision of counselling and compensation payments."
Schools top abuse claims list
"Overall Catholic Church authorities paid $276.1 million in response to claims of child sexual abuse received between January 1, 1980 and February 28, 2015."
The hearing heard the most common institution type identified in claims was schools: they were identified in 46 per cent of all claims, and children's orphanages or residential facilities were identified in 29 per cent of claims.
The highest number of claims of child sexual abuse concerned a residential care facility operated by the De La Salle Brothers in Queensland, with 219 claims relating to the facility.
Earlier, Francis Sullivan from the Truth, Justice and Healing Council told the hearing to look at the context of the times.
He said things are very different now, and that parents should be aware that their children are in safe hands at Catholic schools.
Top 20 Catholic bodies by total compensation payments
SORT BY
No. of paymentsTotal amount ($m)Average payment ($)
No. of payments
|
Total amount ($m)
|
Average payment ($)
|
|
Christian Brothers
|
763
|
48.5
|
64,000
|
De La Salle Brothers
|
227
|
34.8
|
153,000
|
Marist Brothers
|
286
|
31.3
|
109,000
|
Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle
|
128
|
26.6
|
208,000
|
Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
|
84
|
17.2
|
204,000
|
Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
|
323
|
16.8
|
52,000
|
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart
|
67
|
15.2
|
227,000
|
Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart
|
9
|
8.1
|
901,000
|
Hospitaller Order of St John of God
|
57
|
7.4
|
130,000
|
Jesuits - Society of Jesus
|
22
|
5.7
|
257,000
|
Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide
|
54
|
5.2
|
96,000
|
Diocese of Ballarat
|
98
|
5
|
51,000
|
Patrician Brothers - Congregation of the Brothers of St Patrick
|
23
|
4.8
|
210,000
|
Marist Fathers - Society of Mary
|
32
|
3.1
|
96,000
|
Vincentians - The Congregation of the Mission
|
28
|
3.7
|
132,000
|
Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane
|
88
|
3
|
34,000
|
Diocese of Parramatta
|
21
|
2.5
|
117,000
|
Diocese of Toowoomba
|
14
|
2.6
|
187,000
|
Salesians of Don Bosco
|
57
|
2.5
|
43,000
|
Institute of Sisters of Mercy Australia and PNG
|
95
|
2.1
|
22,000
|
ABC/Reuters
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