New commission analysis reveals 43% of victims who have given evidence the sessions were abused in out-of-home care. Photo: Getty ImagesFoster homes, orphanages and other out-of-home care facilities are the most dangerous hotspots for child sexual abuse in Australia, a royal commissioner says. Justice Peter McClellan, who chairs the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, says out-of-home care is "of central concern'' to the inquiry. The NSW government this year passed legislation removing time limitations on civil claims for child sexual abuse, following Victoria's example. "The royal commission has ... brought widespread attention to the nature and extent of institutional child sexual abuse.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 14, 2016 22:18 UTC