Catholic Church Abuse

Former Australian Governor-General Peter Hollingworth Faces Continued Criticism over Handling of Child Sexual Abuse Cases

The historical institutional child sexual abuse of Gerald Ridsdale. Nazareth House, Diocese of Ballarat in the state of Victoria. A call for witnesses.

Koffels Solicitors and Barristers are looking to speak to anyone with information about abuses by Father Patrick Casey and Brother Dominic aka Darcy O’Sullivan.

Accusations against Pell date back to the 1970s and 1980s when he served as a priest in Ballarat, where the Royal Commission heard he was amongst as many as 14 priests who had abused children.

Woman wins right to appeal to the high court decision to throw her case out on the grounds the now-dead priest was unable to defend himself.

As of June 2021, nearly 600 child sexual abuse lawsuits have been filed against the Brooklyn Diocese.  These lawsuits were mainly for the diocese’s protection of priests abusing their parishioners, especially children.

Australia’s Royal Commission on the Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse found multiple and persistent failures of religious institutions to keep children safe, and a culture of secrecy and cover-ups that had devastating consequences for the entire life of the children who had suffered sexual abuse.

Koffels Solicitors and Barristers are seeking witnesses to child sexual abuse perpetrated by Father David Anthony O’Hearn. The crimes occurred in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle north of Sydney in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time, O’Hearn served in various parishes.

On 5 July 2021, amendments to the Criminal Code of Queensland (section 229BC) took effect, making it a crime for an adult who gains information…