AUSTRALIA
Lawyers Weekly
15 November, 2012 Stephanie Quine
A Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in religious institutions will help to give victims some peace, according to a senior counsel.
Barrister and spokesperson for the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA), Dr Andrew Morrison SC (pictured), said victims of sexual abuse could never get back to where they were, but might get some satisfaction if they are listened to and feel that justice will ultimately be done.
Morrison said Barry O’Farrell’s proposed “very limited” inquiry into police and Church handling of abuse by Catholic Church clergy in the Hunter Valley would leave 99 per cent of the victims in NSW feeling that their needs were being ignored.
“The Murphy Inquiry in Ireland was cathartic, it needed to be because there was a huge cultural change required,” said Morrison.
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