Catholic Schools & Homes with Most Child Abuse Claims Revealed by Royal Commission

The royal commission is in its final weeks of examining of the Catholic Church. (Rchard)

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 & Trade School      Bindoon      Western Australia   118

St Vincent De Paul's Orphanage South Melbourne           Victoria             114

St Augustine's Boys' Home (1966-87) 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 Res 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