Second Aussie abuse apology

– Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison yesterday offered a rare apology to victims of institutional child sexual abuse and their families, bringing some survivors to tears.

This followed a five-year inquiry into more than 8 000 cases of child sex abuse, most at religious and state-run institutions. In 2008, then prime minister Kevin Rudd apologised to members of the Stolen Generations of indigenous Australians taken from their families under assimilation policies. – Reuters

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