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ABC ✒ 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.
Giselle Wakatama 
 
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 Catholic paedophile networks in Victoria.

The mapping will now include other hotspots such as Newcastle and the role of women in the church, nuns and seminaries.
Jodi Death is a criminologist leading the mapping project.(Supplied: Twitter)

The Victorian project identified 99 clergy members as abusers linked to 16 paedophile networks in the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses.

It found there was a "mafia-like" code of silence among clergy perpetrators who formed dark networks (DNs) within the Victorian Catholic Church.

Continue reading @ ABC.

Catholic Church Paedophile Networks To Be Mapped 'Like Organised Crime' By Academics

ABC ✒ 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.
Giselle Wakatama 
 
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 Catholic paedophile networks in Victoria.

The mapping will now include other hotspots such as Newcastle and the role of women in the church, nuns and seminaries.
Jodi Death is a criminologist leading the mapping project.(Supplied: Twitter)

The Victorian project identified 99 clergy members as abusers linked to 16 paedophile networks in the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses.

It found there was a "mafia-like" code of silence among clergy perpetrators who formed dark networks (DNs) within the Victorian Catholic Church.

Continue reading @ ABC.
Catholic Church Paedophile Networks

4 comments:

  1. Barry Gilheany2:16 PM, February 14, 2021

    A study which I hope will be replicated globally.

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    1. AM5:56 PM, February 14, 2021

      Is it too much to hope that people will continue to leave the priesthood and live normal lives even should they continue to remain people of Catholic faith with a deep devotion to their god? The Church is such a compromised institution that not much good can come through association with it.

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    2. Steve R9:07 PM, February 15, 2021

      Can't help but feel if the Priests were allowed to marry a large proportion of this horror would never have happened.

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  2. Jeff Sluka8:10 PM, February 14, 2021

    "Dark networks" is an emerging social sciences concept, like "dark ethnography" in anthropology. It studies things which exist in reality but are officially denied. A good example is studying collusion between the Loyalist paramilitaries and British state in Northern Ireland.

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