AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
[with video]
September 14, 2013
Catherine Armitage
Senior Writer
Questions abound as the royal commission sifts through thousands of cases coming before it.
Brace, brace, brace.
As the royal commission on child sexual abuse starts public hearings, that’s the warning from experts, victims and the commission itself.
The stories to come out at the commission chaired by NSW Judge of Appeal Peter McClellan will shake Australia to its soul.
There will be outrage, disbelief and anger nationwide. There will be lives and reputations broken, household-name institutions brought low, families torn apart, grief and pain in gut-wrenching abundance, apologies galore.
We will learn that what we trusted was not to be trusted. That children who should have been safe were not. That what we thought was an aberration confined to a few sick individuals was – is – widespread.
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