AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By Fiona Henderson
Feb. 28, 2013
TWO teachers told a parliamentary inquiry into child sexual abuse by religious organisations that their careers had been destroyed for trying to expose offenders.
Anne Ryan resigned from a 25-year career while Michael Crowe hasn’t worked since 2010 for trying to report inappropriate behaviour by a parish priest.
Ms Ryan said her entire career had been spent teaching in the Ballarat diocese until she began to have concerns about sexual abuse.She complained to the then Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns – who she said described paedophilia as an “illness” – and representative Catholic bodies, but was ignored.
“Due to the inaction within the church, I began to use my voice more publicly,” Ms Ryan said.”I contacted Broken Rites, I wrote letters to the editor, I even went on a Four Corners program to try to raise the issue.
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