AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY Aug. 1, 2013
LATEISHA Pirona, 8, sleeps with a heart locket beneath her pillow.
“That’s Daddy,” said her mother Tracey Pirona.
“The heart is her Daddy and he’s close to her each night.”
It is one year since John Pirona’s disappearance, the discovery of his body five days later, and his funeral on August 8, 2012.
It is less than nine months since Mr Pirona’s suicide became the catalyst of the Newcastle Herald’s Shine the Light campaign that led to the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into child sex abuse allegations, and the federal Royal Commission into child sex abuse.
It is only now that Mr Pirona’s daughters Lateisha and Siennah, 12, have started asking questions about their father’s death.
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