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One News
July 2, 2002

Church considers response to abuse

The Catholic church is looking at compiling a list of all child sex abuse complaints against clergy in New Zealand to find out exactly how big the problem is.

A Lower Hutt counsellor working with victims, Brent Cherry, says recent publicity has prompted people to call him, naming clergy who have not yet been identified as offenders, and he expects the number of complaints to rise.

Lyndsay Freer of Catholic Communications says allegations are already being dealt with by the 39 individual religious orders.

Meanwhile, the head of the St John of God order is to visit New Zealand from Sydney this month to meet all the people claiming abuse by members of the Christchurch order.