Posts Tagged ‘protocols’

Church in PNG to examine implementation of sexual abuse protocol

Friday, May 2nd, 2014

Archbishop Francesco Panfilo says the Catholic Bishops’ conference will be looking at ways it handles cases of sexual abuse. Panfilo is the Archbishop of the Rabaul archdiocese in Papua New Guinea. He speaking after, a now laicised priest, Philip Kelerea, was last month found guilty in the National Court in Kokopo of sexually abusing boys. Read more

Protocols will be drafted to ensure schools informed

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

The Catholic Education Office head Pat Lynch says some protocols will be drafted to ensure parishes inform schools if one of its volunteers or members has been convicted of paedophilia. He was responding to concern that pupils from an Upper Hutt Catholic primary school went to a prayer group that included a convicted paedophile St Read more