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Ballarat Child Sex Abuse Survivors Unite with Residents to March against Abuse

By Charlotte King
ABC News
November 26, 2015

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-23/ballarat-residents-march-against-child-sex-abuse/6962756?site=ballarat

PHOTO: Messages of hope left at the Museum of Australian Democracy. (ABC: Charlotte King)

Victims of child sex abuse have joined more than 100 residents in a community march across Ballarat.

The march was intended to coincide with the child sex abuse royal commission's public hearings into the Melbourne diocese, which is expected to start this week.

The second hearings into Ballarat clergy abuse will start as part of the same sitting.

The march was launched at the old St Alipius Primary School site, where five staff were found to be convicted paedophiles.

Several victims of child sex abuse were marching for the first time, including one survivor, who asked only to be named as Humphrey.

"Yes it's the first time and it's the closest I've been to the St Alipius boys school since I was a child, so it was a big thing for me," he said.

"To see the turnout of people who actually support us is really heartwarming.

"People are getting it now and seeing what went down.

"It's just enormous, it really is enormous."

He said it was the kind of support survivors were looking for.

"Just in a free and open way, just relaxed, just to have the feeling that people are like-minded and just to be apart of it is just enormous, it's absolutely enormous," he said.

 

 

 

 

 




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