E ova i le 1,000 tuaaiga o faiga solitulafono na faia i le fanau na faatau i le Ekalesia Egelani i le 35 tausaga ua mavae.
I le Aso Tofi na te'a nei, na saunoa se tasi o faifeau sinia, se Bishop i luma o le Komisi suesue, le Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, na nana ma faalafi e le Ekalesia le tele o nei tagi ma tuuaiga e puipui ai le igoa ta'ulelei o le Ekalesia, ae le faia ai lona tiute o le puipuia o le fanau laiti.
O le aso lava lea na ia faamavae ai ma ona tofi i le Ekalesia....
I molimau i luma o le Komisi suesue, na faailoa ai i le va o le1980 ma le 2015, e (1,115 complaints) tagi na faaulu i pulega e 22 o le Ekalesia Egelani.
E toa 569 faife'au ma tagata faigaluega ua iloa lo latou faia o nei solitulafono.
Na saunoa le loia suesue mo le Komisi, Gail Furness o le 75% o e na tagi o tama, ma le 25% o teine, e tele ina i le ta'i 11 tausaga le matutua...............
FURNESS
"Where the gender of people making a complaint was reported, 75 per cent were male and 25 per cent were female. The average age of people who made complaints at the time of the alleged abuse, was 11 years of age for both girls and boys."
Ua talia e le Ekalesia Egelani le sese o le auala na tagofia ai tagi ma tuuaiga na faasino i ona faifeau i aso ua mavae.
O le 2004 na faia ai se faatoesega a le Ekalesia i e na aafia i sauaga a faifeau......
Ae o le Aso faraile talu ai, na saunoa ai le taitai o le Ekalesia, le Melbourne Philip Freier o ia ua tumu i le ma-asiasi i sauaga na faia e lona au-uso i fanau a le Ekalesia.....
FREIER
"We are deeply ashamed of the many ways in which we have let down survivors, both in the way we have acted and the way we have failed to act."
E le na o le taitai o le Ekalesia Egelani na lagona lona faanoanoa i solitulafono na faia i tamaiti.
Na saunoa le failautusi o le Sinoti Aoao a le Ekalesia Egelani i Ausetalia, Anne Hywood, o leai o se puipuiga o tamaiti ona o le ufiufi o tuuaiga ma tagi na faatau i le pulega o le Ekalesia, na faa-auau ai ona sauaina le fanau e nisi o faifeau........
HYWOOD
"It is clear there were times we did not act as we should and we allowed harm to continue. We did not believe those who came forward and we tried to silence them."
