Catholic Church schools and homes with the most child abuse claims revealed

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The Catholic Church has released numbers on how many child sexual abuse claims have been made against staff from their religious schools and orphanages, showing one home for boys faced 219 accusations.

The church identified 28 institutions that had 20 or more claims of child sexual abuse. You can search the data below.

The highest number of claims came from BoysTown at Beaudesert in Queensland, with 219 claims levelled at Catholic Church members working at the children's home.

This information is part of a large release of data revealing the extent of child sex abuse within the Australian Catholic Church that was done with cooperation from them as part of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The church surveyed 10 religious institutes and 75 church authorities to uncover the abuse data on priests, non-ordained brothers and sisters, and other church personnel who were employed between 1950 and 2009.

Institution Location State Number of claims BoysTown Beaudesert Queensland 219 St Vincent's Orphanage, Clontarf Waterford Western Australia 152 Castledare Junior Orphanage Wilson Western Australia 142 St Joseph's Farm and Trade School Bindoon Western Australia 118 St Vincent De Paul's Orphanage South Melbourne Victoria 114 St Augustine's Boys' Home (1966-1987) Geelong Victoria 96 St Vincent's Orphanage Nudgee Queensland 76 St Joseph's Home Neerkol Queensland 71 Marist College Canberra Pearce ACT 63 St Mary's Agricultural School Tardun Western Australia 49 St Pius X College Adamstown New South Wales 46 St Vincent's Boys' Home Westmead New South Wales 45 Salesian College, Rupertswood Sunbury Victoria 44 St Ann's Special School Marion South Australia 42 Kendall Grange Morisset Park New South Wales 41 St Joseph's College Geelong Victoria 39 St Alipius' School Ballarat East Victoria 38 St Joseph's College Hunters Hill New South Wales 31 Boys' Town Engadine New South Wales 31 St Francis Xavier Mission Wandering Western Australia 30 St Stanislaus College Bathurst New South Wales 29 St Vincent de Paul Orphanage Goodwood South Australia 26 Cheltenham Residential Training Centre Cheltenham Victoria 23 St Leo's College Box Hill Victoria 21 Parramatta Marist High Westmead New South Wales 21 St Mary's Mission New Norcia Western Australia 20 Marist Brothers Hamilton Hamilton New South Wales 20 St Patrick's College Ballarat Victoria 20

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