AUSTRALIA
SBS
[with video]
By Christine Heard, Nancia Guivarra
“Many of the stories we are hearing will shock people,” says Justice Peter McClellan, who is overseeing the team of six commissioners of the Royal Commission.
Justice McClellan says those documenting the allegations of systemic institutional abuse have found it harrowing.
“I didn’t adequately appreciate, the devestating and long lasting affects which sexual abuse, however inflicted can have on an individuals life.”
The first institution examined was Scouts New South Wales… and the activities of former scout leader and convicted pedophile Steven Larkins … who is now in jail.
The commission heard that Larkins sexually assaulted two boys.
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