AUSTRALIA
The Age
June 21, 2013
Carolyn Webb
Members of a support group for people who grew up in care say they will boycott a reunion organised by the Good Shepherd nuns as part of celebrations for the order’s 150th anniversary in Australia.
Care Leavers Australia Network chief executive Leonie Sheedy said the nuns’ event was inappropriate ”when they haven’t acknowledged, or publicly apologised for, the damage that’s been done to children in their care”.
With the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse under way and the state inquiry into how the churches handled clergy sexual abuse to report later this year, abused former residents of Good Shepherd institutions said there was nothing to celebrate.
The nuns, on their webpage, say the June 21 and 22 celebrations at the Abbotsford Convent will include tours and an exhibition.
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