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Catholic Church paedophile networks to be mapped ‘like organised crime’ by academics
A “mafia-like” code of silence among “dark networks” within the Catholic Church has begun to emerge from a world-first project mapping clerical paedophile networks, says an academic behind the project.
Key points:
- The first mapping effort linked 99 clergy to 16 paedophile networks in the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses
- Documents and the oral histories of at least 50 survivors are being used
- Women in the church and nuns will be examined as part of the mapping process
The project is led by Newcastle sociologist Kathleen McPhillips and criminologist Jodi Death (pronounced Deeth) from Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) law faculty.
The research builds on work done by Sally Muytjens, one of Dr Death’s doctoral students, who mapped…
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