Victim Offered No Sympathy by Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral

By Dan Box
The Australian
March 22, 2014

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/victim-offered-no-sympathy-by-dean-of-st-marys-cathedral/story-fngburq5-1226861615314#mm-premium

A TEENAGER who told the dean of Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral he had been sexually abused was allegedly “humiliated” by the Catholic cleric, who had “a complaint file as big as the New Testament”, church lawyers have said.

No record was kept of this 1983 complaint, which came to light 20 years later while the Archdiocese of Sydney was fighting a separate child abuse case, according to documents tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.