January 3, 2020 - The 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 and the 2021/2022 Annual Child Protection Report have not yet been released.
It was discovered that they have no intention of publishing them anymore.

"In the interests of ongoing transparency and accountability ,the Australian Province has committed to publishing , on an annual basis, any complaints of child sexual abuse committed by an adult, that are received by the Province in that year.
This includes reports that relate to previous decades or to someone who is now deceased."

Its all very interesting but almost useless in a real way. This is not what you could call transparent.
What exactly is a "complaint"
There is no indication of complaints they have settled.
From reading the list you would assume that no complaints had been settled by the Jesuits themselves,
when its known that there have been many settlements.

Interesting to note there are 5 reports relating to the 2000 - 2010 decade this year when there wasn't one in the previous year.
There are 7 new names this year. (#first and only) and only 3 last year. Complaints against "new" persons are on the rise.
5 complaints against new persons for abuse in the 2010's.

Number 4: A first complaint against a living former Jesuit abusing in the 1960's. Who, I wonder?

Number 11 is interesting. It seems that if it is a living person who they no longer employ the complaint
will be rejected and/or shoved off to someone else, and they will not inform the Police
Even though the offender was employed by them at the time of the offence.
What is the current employer going to do? Dismiss him I guess, that would be all.
Similar to the Wallbridge complaint they rejected.

Who is doing these external independent investigations? The internal complaint handling policy is a secret.

Number 10 - "Complaint investigated by police and found to be not sustained" The Police do not make that judgement.
They might decide that there is not enough evidence to for a possible conviction and not proceed.
It does not mean the person is innocent. A big problem with "he says - she says" investigations, who do you believe.

2017 - 2018 Report

Num	Alleged Offender	Decade of Allegations	Status
1	Jesuit*	1950’S	Awaiting further engagement from the abused person
2	Jesuit*	1970’s	Awaiting contact from abused person’s solicitor
3	Lay#	2010’s	Police & external independent investigation found allegations of abuse not sustained
4	Former Jesuit#	1960’s	Anonymous report by abused person who has not engaged further
5	Jesuit*	1970’s	Awaiting further engagement from the abused person
6	Jesuit	1970’s	Complaint being investigated by Police
7	Jesuit	1970’s	Complaint being investigated by Police
8	Lay#	1960’s	Awaiting further engagement from the abused person
9	Jesuit#	2010’s	Complaint being investigated by Police
10	Lay#	2010’s	Complaint investigated by police and found to be not sustained
11	Lay#	2010’s	No longer an employee at the time of the complaint. Complaint passed to relevant employer for action.
12	Jesuits & Lay	1970’s	Resolution sought by abused person through Towards Healing
13	Lay#	2010’s	Report made to Police and external independent investigation being undertaken

2016 - 2017 Report

What is missing here is any update on the outcomes of these old reports. 5 under police investigation. Where are the police at with it?

Num	Alleged Offender	Decade of Allegations	Status
14	Jesuit *#	1950’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
15	Lay person#	1980’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
16	Jesuit	1960’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
17	Former Jesuit	1970’s	Police undertaking investigation
18		1970’s	Police undertaking investigation
19		1960’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
20		1960’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
21	Jesuit *#	1950’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
22	Former Jesuit	1970’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
23	Jesuit *#	1960’s	Awaiting further engagement from the victim survivor
24	Jesuit	1980’s	Police undertaking investigation
25	Lay person	1960’s	Police undertaking investigation
26	Former Jesuit	1980’s	Police undertaking investigation
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* Deceased # First any only report received


Unlike the 6 North American provinces the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus has refused to release a list of credibly accused priests and brothers.
Unlike the US provinces the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus does not have an independant person with training and skills in psychology/social work etc. to be the contact point for complaints,
instead they have employed Simon Davies, a former Federal Police officer with expertise in counter terrorism.

Jan 15, 2019         ♦ www.ncronline.org         ♦ religionnews.com

With the report’s release Jan. 15, following others from the Catholic order’s U.S. provinces in recent months, all Jesuit provinces in the United States have now unveiled lists of priests accused of abuse, joining dozens of Catholic dioceses that have done the same since the August 2018 release of a bombshell grand jury report in Pennsylvania that detailed decades of alleged abuse by priests in the state.

♦ www.jesuitscentralsouthern.org

Feb. 27, 2020 – The Jesuits U.S. Central and Southern Province in Dec. 2018 released a list of
Jesuits with credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor.
At that time, the province also announced that Kinsale Management Consulting, Inc. had been retained to review the personnel files
of Jesuits who are or were members of the U.S. Central and Southern Province or its predecessors as of Jan. 1, 1955.
The Kinsale review has been completed and with the assistance of the province Review Board,
the province today adds four names to the list of credibly accused Jesuits.
In addition, one Jesuit’s name has been moved from the list of men with a single allegation to the list of more than one allegation.

Reporting Abuse
The province urges anyone who experienced sexual abuse as a minor to report the offense to the law enforcement or child protective services in the locale where the abuse happened. Survivors are also encouraged to advise the Jesuits by calling Carol Zarinelli Brescia, Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

This list is based on investigations that have been completed. Jesuits with allegations that are currently being investigated have not been included on this list.
Inclusion on this list does not imply that the allegations are true and correct or that the accused individual has been found guilty of a crime or liable for civil claims.
Additional information about each man follows the initial list.
While a list of each man’s assignments is included, it is important to note that the allegations do not necessarily stem from any of the listed assignments.

For full list see their website. An example of what they disclose:



Jan 23, 2021 ♦ cruxnow.com

ROSARIO, Argentina – After releasing a report documenting 81 cases of the sexual abuse of minors in Spain,
the Jesuit leadership in the country expressed “shame, pain, and regret.”

The report on allegations of abuse made against members of the religious order covered the years 1927-2020,
and also included documentation about the sexual abuse of 37 adults in that period.

“We feel shame, pain and regret,” said Jesuit Father Antonio España, the head of the Spanish province of the order.

“We want to learn to apologize to the victims and society for the abuses, for the culture of silence,
for not facing the facts fairly,” he said at a press conference on Thursday.

The priest said the presentation of the report was a priority for the order as it tries to “create a safe environment” in all its work.
“A fundamental part of this is being accountable for the past,” España said.

The report is the result of a two-year investigation, and uses a broad definition of sexual abuse,
from improper language and solicitations, to touching and rape.

According to the Jesuits, “most cases” involved improper touching.

“The lack of systematization of the information that existed has been a difficulty,” said Father José María Rodríguez Olaizola,
communication secretary of the Society of Jesus in Spain.

“However, out of honesty with the people who have suffered abuse and the need to clarify the past, we have found it essential to face this investigation.”

The information was collected by going through the archives of the religious order,
with information provided by former provincial superiors. There were also listening commissions,
testimony from other Jesuits, information found in newspapers,
and allegations made confidentially to an email made widely available ahead of the compiling of the report.

In an attempt to prevent new instances of sexual abuse, the Jesuits in Spain have implemented
a “safe environment system” in all their institutions, based on three pillars: Awareness,
prevention and intervention. The order says they hope to generate “a profound change in culture.”

More than half of the abuse against minors took place in schools run by the Jesuits.
The abuse was perpetrated by a total of 96 priests, of whom 71 are deceased,
with the rest being expelled or suspended from the order, or banned from contact with minors.

“We want to insist on the need to take the data with caution,” says the report.
“We believe that there may be cases of which we are not aware. In the future,
others who have suffered abuse might need to step forward, since they have not yet found the strength or the possibility to tell their story.”

“Our objective, in every case, is to seek truth and justice, and contribute,
if it is in our hands, to help them heal,” the report says.

According to the report, there have been 8,782 Jesuits in Spain since 1927,
the year of the first recorded instance of abuse in the report, until present day.
At least 65 of these Jesuits have credible accusations that they abused minors, of whom 14 are accused of abusing more than one child.

Taking into account those who are accused of abusing adults, the Jesuits found that 1.08 percent of those
in the Spanish province have been credibly accused of committing sexual abuse.

Though there is no global statistic on the percentage of priests accused of abuse,
the number is significantly lower than the one calculated for the United States by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2002
at the request of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The John Jay Report indicated that close to 11,000 allegations had been made against 4,932 priests in the United States between 1950 and 2002,
which constituted close to 2.7 percent of all the priests – diocesan and religious – that served in the country during this time.

Thursday’s report extrapolated the data to compare it with the same period.
They found that there were 48 abusive Jesuits – representing 1.1 percent of the total – between 1950 and 2002.
The difference in the percentage between this and the U.S. data, the report notes,
can either indicate a lesser incidence of abuse in Spain or that there are victims who are still waiting to be able to come forward.

The 24-page report by the Spanish Jesuits includes no names, either of perpetrators or victims.
The Jesuits argue that they made this decision, despite many English-speaking countries choosing to
release exhaustive lists of abusive priests for three reasons: Many survivors have explicitly asked not
to give information that might point towards their identity and that of the abuser;
cases that have been tried are of public knowledge; and avoiding the names of the accused priests from being “irreparably damaged without any nuance.”

On the latter point they clarify that there are cases that include a wide range of abuse, and not all are equal:
“We do not intend, with this, to minimize the impact of some actions on the lives of other people,
but we do try to avoid immediately associating any inappropriate behavior with the most dramatic cases that we have reported.
Hence the understanding that all people have the right, even legally protected, to confidential treatment of their data and stories.”

Addressing survivors, the report says that the Jesuits want to above all “insist on our respect and concern for the people who have suffered abuse.
All responsibility for what happened belongs to those who, from positions of authority and moral superiority,
used this situation to take advantage of someone entrusted to their care.
And we regret not having known how to see or react appropriately when some of these cases came to light.”

In the report, signed by the Spanish Jesuits as a whole, they express “unequivocally” their determination to contribute to the fight against “the tragedy of abuse.”

All of society must reconcile with this need, they said, because there’s a culture that has proven inadequate when it comes to protecting those most vulnerable.

“But it is not up to us to demand responsibility from others, but from ourselves,” the Jesuits write.
“We have to look at what happened in the face. We should not minimize it, or settle if the data is more or less forceful.
They are never tolerable. And they are not figures.
They are lives, and they are real stories.”