AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
November 16, 2013
Chrissie Foster
It has been quite a journey, but this week we arrived.
The tabling in State Parliament on Wednesday of the inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations report, with its findings and recommendations, was an emotionally charged occasion.
Morning and afternoon saw both the upper and lower houses of Parliament silent and intent as each of the six Family and Community Development Committee members read their speeches. Every one of them passionate, resolute and united in their damning of the Catholic Church and the atrocities it bestowed on generation after generation of Victorian children.
Their collective disgust at evidence presented before them reverberated throughout the Parliament and every person who listened.
Tears were shed as the strength and clarity of their words damned an organisation that wore sheep’s clothing in public yet, in reality, tolerated, hid and protected criminal clergy who never tired of their lustful crimes and were left unchecked to continue molesting and raping boys and girls.
There were no stops put in place, no checks, and no punishment for these criminal clergy, just further access to the bodies of our defenceless children.
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