Former Teacher Weeps at Priests" Betrayal of Children

By Jane Lee
The Age
November 13, 2012

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/former-teacher-weeps-at-priests-betrayal-of-children-20121112-298hu.html


TEARS were shed at a state inquiry into child abuse on Monday, hours before Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a federal royal commission into the issue.

Pam Krstic, an educational and child protection adviser for the Melbourne Victims' Collective, broke down while giving evidence to the inquiry's six-member committee.

''Since 2006, when I lost my job as a teacher in a Catholic school over my concerns about a priest … I'm still horrified at the utter disregard for the ongoing (plight) of the many students placed at risk by the (convicted) paedophile priests in my parish,'' Ms Krstic said.

She said when one of the priests disappeared in 1994, she was deputy principal of the school and there were no policies in place to communicate with victims and their families.