AUSTRALIA
ABC – 7.30
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcast: 17/04/2012
Reporter: James Bennett
A parliamentary inquiry in Victoria will look at how the Church handles complaints about abuse by members of clergy.
Transcript
CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: The long and sorry saga over sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has prompted the Victorian Government to launch a parliamentary inquiry. After decades of accusations, pressure on the Baillieu Government to act intensified after a leaked police report linked dozen of suicides to abuse, but the decision not to call for a Royal Commission is already under fire. James Bennett reports.
JAMES BENNETT, REPORTER: Anthony and Christine Foster are all too familiar with the trauma caused by sex abuses within the Catholic community. Two of their young daughters became regular victims of parish priest Father Kevin O’Donnell during their early years of primary school.
CHRISTINE FOSTER, MOTHER OF VICTIMS: Emma has died, Katie has been disabled forever and Amy suffers as well. All this because they didn’t remove a priest who was sexually assaulting children, and it should have happened and it didn’t happen.
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