National Scrutiny of Child Abuse 'A Must'

By Pia Akerman
The Australian
November 12, 2012

www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/national-scrutiny-of-child-abuse-a-must/story-fn59niix-1226514716577

STEPHEN Woods would be among the first volunteers to give evidence at any royal commission into child abuse within the Catholic church.

As a Catholic school student in Ballarat in the 1970s, he suffered 3 1/2 years of abuse at the hands of Christian brothers, including Robert Charles Best, who has been convicted of numerous child-sex offences and now awaits the outcome of an appeal.