Catholic Church paedophile networks to be mapped like organised crime by academics
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The role of women, nuns and seminaries in paedophile networks are also being mapped.
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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