Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese, located in Sydney, New South Wales. The Archdiocese is involved in many different areas and provides many services within Sydney. They mainly include care and support to people in need, education, and health and aged care. Data made public by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse showed the following:
169 people made a claim of child sexual abuse to the Archdiocese of Sydney between 1980 and 2015 (4 per cent of all claims made to a Catholic Church authority);
The number of claims made to the Archdiocese of Sydney represents 9 per cent of all claims made to an archdiocese/diocese in Australia;
Of the people who made a claim of child sexual abuse to the Archdiocese of Sydney, 56 per cent were male and 41 per cent were female;
All of the 105 alleged perpetrators identified in claims of child sexual abuse made to the Archdiocese of Sydney were male. These 105 alleged perpetrators were 4 per cent of all alleged perpetrators identified in claims made to Catholic Church authorities;
Of these 105 alleged perpetrators, 57 were identified as priests and 31 were lay people.
One hundred and seven people identified one or more priests as alleged perpetrators and 47 people identified one or more lay people as alleged perpetrators.
Of all the alleged perpetrators, seven (8 per cent) were the subject of 10 or more claims of child sexual abuse;
The highest number of claims made in relation to a single alleged perpetrator was 12;
Of the 1,049 named institutions identified in the Catholic Church claims data, 86 institutions were identified in relation to the Archdiocese of Sydney, including 29 schools and 54 parish, church and formation houses (identified in 62 and 84 claims respectively).
Moody Law has represented and is still representing victims of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Sydney.
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