AUSTRALIA
WA Today
April 3, 2013
Patrick Caruana and Genevieve Gannon
AAP
Finally, the powerful people are here to help.
It is only the beginning of a long and traumatic process but victims and their families have tearfully embraced after waiting decades for the royal commission into responses to child sex abuse.
Chrissie Foster, whose daughter died of a medication overdose after being abused by a priest, said it was a day she thought would never come.
“It’s an amazing thing to sit in there with those powerful people and hear what they’re going to do for future children and right the wrongs of the past,” she said after the commission’s first hearing.
“I’m just so overwhelmed and happy that this is happening in our country.”
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