AUSTRALIA
Canberra Times
June 11, 2013
Peter Jean
Chief Assembly Reporter for The Canberra Times.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is being urged to hold hearings in Canberra to encourage local victims to tell their stories.
ACT Liberal Senator Gary Humphries said many child abuse victims had shown the courage to speak up publicly and in the courts in recent years and they deserved to be heard.
“I know there’s been at least 150 cases that have been raised in the ACT – it could be closer to 200 cases,” Senator Humphries said.
“And in those circumstances I think there’s ample basis for the commission to come to Canberra.”
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