Uniting church has faced 2,500 reports of child sexual abuse, royal commission hears

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Christopher Knaus and Australian Associated Press

The Uniting church has been subject to about 2,500 allegations of child sexual abuse in its 40-year history, the royal commission has heard.

The child abuse royal commission also heard that there were 1,006 alleged perpetrators of abuse within the Jehovah’s Witnesses, but the congregation did not report a single one to police.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses, the inquiry heard, were still refusing to change a second century biblical rule requiring two witnesses to prove wrongdoing.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/10/uniting-church-has-faced-2500-reports-of-child-sexual-abuse-royal-commission-hears