105 Catholic priests and brothers have been sentenced in Australian courts in Broken Rites cases regarding church sex-abuse

INTRODUCTION

Broken Rites Australia helps victims of church-related sex abuse to obtain justice. Since Broken Rites began operating its Australia-wide telephone hotline in 1993, we have received thousands of calls and emails about incidents of abuse.

From these reports, we have built up a huge database of thousands of alleged incidents. Therefore, when someone contacts us to report abuse, it is possible that the name of the alleged offender may already be on our database. A victim will find it easier to achieve justice if our database reveals previous complaints about the same alleged offender. This page of Catholic cases was compiled by Broken Rites researchers and was last updated on 27 March 2009.

The page is divided into 15 sections:

* A: Jailed
* B: Suspended jail sentences
* C: Non-custodial sentences
* D: Other sentences coming to our attention
* E: Sent to trial
* F: Currently before the courts
* G: Died during prosecution
* H: Committed suicide during prosecution
* I: Church people failed to help police
* J: Examples of some other investigations
* K: Cases where the church admits harm
* L: Other cases involving a civil settlement
* M: More reports of abuse
* N: Court cases ending with no conviction
* O: Lay teachers in Catholic schools

Our database, listing thousands of alleged offences, is NOT available on the internet. On this web page, we merely give a few examples of cases in which Broken Rites became involved.

In many cases, Broken Rites helped by referring these victims to the police sex-offences or child-abuse unit, resulting in a conviction; in some cases, a victim spoke to Broken Rites after the conviction (or sentencing); and in other cases a victim sought our advice about tackling the church authorities (for example, through the Catholic Church's Towards Healing process).

{ADMIN NOTE- Due to the sheer volume of this file and the Continual updates I will no longer keep a copy on this website. You can find the most up to date file here}

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