Mothers Book about Family Experience of Church Abuse, CathNews, August 29 2010

Mother's Book about Family Experience of Church Abuse

CathNews
August 29 2010

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=23026

A woman who alleges her two daughters were abused by a priest in Victoria has written a book about her family's experience with the Church over the case.

In Hell On The Way To Heaven, written by Ms Chrissie Foster in collaboration with ABC journalist Paul Kennedy, the author alleges the Church shielded the late priest despite an earlier letter of apology acknowledging the findings by the Church's investigator that the cleric had raped both the children, reports the Herald Sun.

One of the girls, Emma, died of a drug overdose in 2008 after years of drug addiction and mental illness caused by the abuse while a primary school student, said the report.

The report adds that the priest was jailed in 1995 after he admitted abusing 10 boys and two girls over a 31-year period. He was released in 1996 and died the following year.