Australian Prime Minister makes national apology for mistreating children

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized on Monday for victims of sexual abuse committed within the Roman Catholic Church, among others. This is the second time that an Australian prime minister is apologizing at the national level, reports the Reuters news agency. "Today, as a nation, we face our lack of listening, belief and justice." Sorry, said Prime Minister Morrison in the Australian capital's parliament, Canberra, where he spoke about 800 victims of violence "I believe you, we believe that your country believes you."

Apologies follow a five-year inquiry by a committee about more than eight thousand cases of abuse in religious and governmental institutions responsible for the safety of children, he showed that between 1950 and 2010, 7% of Australian Catholic priests were guilty of sexual abuse.This is equivalent to about 2,400 priests.

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Even the third Vatican man, Cardinal George Pell, must be tried for sexual assault He is the highest-ranking Roman Catholic clergy suspected of abuse In May of this year, Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, resigned after a court found him guilty of concealing the child. Sexual assault of two boys by a priest in the 1970s. Wilson is the highest member of the clergy in the entire Catholic Church to have been found guilty of abuse scandals.

"We apologize," said Prime Minister Morrison. "We have failed children, sorry, parents whose trust has been betrayed and who have struggled to find their lives, sorry."

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Denominational Confession

In addition to apologizing, Prime Minister Morrison has promised tighter controls, many victims believe the government lacks powers. Although Australia has put in place a compensation system this year to pay up to $ 150,000 to abuse the victims, the Australian Conservative government has not yet determined whether it will take back the commission's recommendations. investigation that would investigate sexual abuse in the Church.

One of the recommendations of the committee was that priests who hear confessions of child abuse when confessed should inform the authorities. However, the church rejected this proposal and said in late August that confessional secrecy could not be negotiated.

A national excuse occurred only once, namely in 2008. At that time, the Prime Minister of the time, Kevin Rudd, had excused himself for the assimilation policy applied to the Stolen Generations of Native Australians, who were forcibly removed from their families and communities between 1910 and 1970.

Abuse Worldwide

Abuses committed in the Catholic Church are not limited to Australia. The scandals within the Church arouse strong anger around the world. Many and many new revelations take place. In August, a devastating report from a Pennsylvania inquiry commission concluded that more than one thousand children had been abused by more than three hundred priests since the 1940s.

In Ireland, where Pope Fransiscus s & rsquo; Has been made recently, several reports have shown that tens of thousands of Irish boys and girls have been mistreated. In Chile, all bishops resigned at the end of a crisis deliberation on abuses committed within the church.