Exhibit 480 ยท Commission report
Final Report, Volume 16, Religious institutions, Book 1
We have concluded that there were catastrophic failures of leadership of Catholic Church authorities over many decades, particularly before the 1990s.
Religious institutions volume. Catholic claims data: 4,444 claimants in 4,756 claims to Catholic authorities (1 January 1980 to 2015); 1,880 known alleged perpetrators; 7 percent of Catholic priests who ministered 1950-2010 were alleged perpetrators on a weighted basis; $268.0 million paid on 3,057 claims. Concludes Catholic leaders were aware well before the 1990s and failed to act; reports Anglican, Salvation Army, Uniting, Jehovah's Witness, Pentecostal and Jewish institutions; states its data cannot show incidence or prevalence.
- Source
- Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia)
- Date
- 15 December 2017
- Quoted from
- Executive Summary, p. 36
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190204081943if_/https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/final_report_-_volume_16_religious_institutions_book_1.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit