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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MAY 24, 2013
IN AN INCREDIBLE SPECIAL REPORT, ABUSE SURVIVOR TOMMY CAMPION REVEALS HIS STRUGGLE FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FOR THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, WHILE THE CHURCH’S HEAD PHILLIP ASPINALL REVEALS HIS EFFORTS TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE HIS CHURCH HAS CAUSED.
By Tommy Campion
DEAR members of the royal commission,
I would think seriously about donating a kidney if I am given the opportunity to stand before the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse. And after eight years of battling the Anglican Church for answers, something exciting has happened concerning the sexual and physical abuse of more than 200 children.
Yes, to hell with the kidney, it means nothing compared to the horrific and violent abuse children suffered at the hands of Anglican clergy and staff over the five decades the Church of England North Coast Children’s Home was functioning.
I was raised in that Anglican home for 14 years, 10 of which were brutal. I was sexually violated and physically abused. To this day I bear the scars on my back from a flogging.
The scars in my mind are deeper.
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