AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By Deborah Gough
Nov. 13, 2012
COUNSELLING over sex abuse is being sought for children in Catholic and non-Catholic schools, and the royal commission announced this week can expect to hear about current as well as historic cases, a Melbourne clinical psychologist has said.
While Cardinal George Pell, leader of the Archdiocese of Sydney, on Tuesday continued to describe the instances of child sex abuse as “historic”, psychologist Andrew Fuller said he was treating children who had suffered abuse at Catholic schools recently.
“Kids from all types of schools suffer; there is all sorts of abuse,” Mr Fuller said.
“It is pretty horrendous. It is certainly something that has occurred recently. A royal commission is something I would support, but I do think it is almost a bottomless pit,” he said.
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