Royal Commission says decades of institutional child sexual abuse a 'national tragedy'

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated December 14 2017 - 1:35pm, first published 12:30pm
Calls for change across Australian institutions

THE Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has called for church and other institutional leaders to put aside their resentment and support necessary changes to address the “national tragedy” of child sexual abuse, during an emotional final sitting.

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