AUSTRALIA/IRELAND
SBS
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Dateline looks at what lessons the Australian child sex abuse inquiry can learn from Ireland’s experience.
With the Royal Commission into child sex abuse at institutions in Australia to begin soon, tonight’s Dateline at 9.30pm on SBS ONE looks at the experience of Ireland, which is the only other country to have held a national inquiry.
Reporter Evan Williams hears some of the very personal and distressing stories of abuse in Catholic institutions, with most victims deeply affected into adulthood.
“I was told I would be healed, I’m not healed. I was told open the scars and open up, I did that, and the scars are festering away because I’d been promised so much, and then just left there,” John Kelly, who spent time in a state-funded and Roman Catholic-run children’s institution, tells Evan.
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