Past priests admit system failed children

By Melissa Cunningham
Updated December 15 2015 - 8:09am, first published December 14 2015 - 2:28pm
Father John McKinnon
Father John McKinnon

A retired Ballarat priest told a sexual abuse inquiry an external investigation of the Catholic Church was the only way to bring about change. Father John McKinnon told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he had failed victims by not questioning why several priests were moved around the Ballarat Diocese during the 1970s and 80s.

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