The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

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Agency

Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia)

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • REL-3.4: Australia's Royal Commission recorded 4,444 claimants in 4,756 claims against Catholic Church authorities between 1980 and 2015, with 1,880 known alleged perpetrators and $268.0 million paid on 3,057 claims. It found numerous cases in which senior Catholic officials knew of allegations and failed to take effective action, and that complaints were not reported to police or other civil authorities.
  • REL-3.5: Case files that Watchtower Australia produced to the Royal Commission recorded allegations of child sexual abuse against 1,006 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization in Australia since 1950, including admissions by 579. The Commission found no evidence that the organization reported any of the 1,006 to police or other secular authorities.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 480 15 December 2017. Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia): Final Report, Volume 16, Religious institutions, Book 1
  • Exhibit 481 October 2016 (public hearing July-August 2015). Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia): Report of Case Study No. 29: The response of the Jehovah's Witnesses and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Australia Ltd to allegations of child sexual abuse