AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By IAN KIRKWOOD Aug. 1, 2013
THE Special Commission of Inquiry was awash with tears on Thursday afternoon as two witness statements by survivors of serial paedophile priest Denis McAlinden were read to the proceedings.
Zimmerman Services healing and support co-ordinator Mauren O’Hearn read the statements after giving evidence of her work with at least 28 of the disgraced priest’s victims.
Ms O’Hearn confirmed that McAlinden was active from as early as 1949 and as late as 1986.
She said survivors of McAlinden were still coming forward and that people had come from New Zealand and interstate.
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