Australian PM Scott Morrison delivers national apology to child sex abuse victims
Australia's prime minister is delivering an emotive national apology to the survivors, victims and families of institutional child sexual abuse.
Scott Morrison's apology follows the release of last year's report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Mr Morrison acknowledged that the state had failed to protect the victims from "evil dark" crimes committed over decades.
"This was done by Australians to Australians, enemies in our midst, enemies in our midst," he told a parliamentary chamber in Canberra.
"As a nation, we failed them, we forsook them, and that will always be our shame."
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