AUSTRALIA
WA Today
Jo Chandler
April 18, 2012
HINDSIGHT and maternal intuition mean Helen Watson can pinpoint precisely the moment when life for her 15-year-old son began to unravel. There’s no consolation in the memory.
She can summon up the scene, see it, smell it – the ”absolutely reeking” stench of alcohol wafting from the young priest, and the strange discomfort in her boy’s demeanour when he arrived back at the family farmhouse that morning.
What she can’t do is fix it, though she has devoted many years since to retrieving whatever justice, amends or lessons she might find in the moment.
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