AUSTRALIA
The Daily Telegraph
Cardinal George Pell and senior members of Catholic Church had ‘sociopathic lack of empathy’ towards Foster family, parliamentary inquiry told
CARDINAL George Pell and other leaders of the Catholic Church had “a sociopathic lack of empathy” towards a family whose lives were ripped apart after a priest abused their daughters, a parliamentary inquiry into child abuse has been told.
It comes as victims speak about seizures, substance abuse and relationship difficulties stemming from childhood abuse in the church.
Anthony and Chrissie Foster, whose daughters Katie and Emma were abused after enrolling in a Catholic primary school in Oakleigh in the late 1980s, told the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into church handling of child sex abuse how their family had been torn apart by the “hell” of dealing with the trauma.
Mr Foster said the late Father Kevin O’Donnell had been reported on three prior occasions but was not brought to justice.
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