Childhood Abuse a "Torturous Life Sentence', Royal Commission Hears

By Rachel Browne
Sydney Morning Herald
March 30, 2017

http://www.smh.com.au/national/childhood-abuse-a-torturous-life-sentence-royal-commission-hears-20170329-gv9jta.html

The damage inflicted by childhood abuse is lifelong and catastrophic but support services for victims are "grossly inadequate", a royal commission has heard.

Shelly Braieoux? told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse she still suffers decades after allegedly being abused in a religious organisation.

The 45-year-old mother of four has ongoing physical and mental health problems including depression, anxiety and panic attacks.

"Even though we may have physically survived, we have been sentenced to a torturous life sentence full of unnumbered battles," she said.