NEW ZEALAND
NZ Catholic
Tuesday Jul, 2013
by MICHAEL OTTO
WELLINGTON — Media publicity around state and federal inquiries into child abuse in Australia have prompted several adults to contact the Catholic Church’s National Office for Professional Standards in New Zealand.
Professional standards office national director Bill Kilgallon told NZ Catholic that a number of people currently living in Australia, who grew up in New Zealand, “have felt able to come forward and tell their story”.
These people are aged between 40 and 60 years and the abuse happened during their childhoods in New Zealand, he said.
Mr Kilgallon, who, in the 1990s, led independent inquiries into allegations of abuse in residential care provided by a local authority in the United Kingdom, is encouraged that these people have come forward.
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