AUSTRALIA
7 News
MIKE HEDGE –
November 14, 2013
Every kid in the school knew what was going on, and many had scars to show for it.
But until this week the victims of men like the Christian Brothers Robert Best and Edward Dowlan struggled with the thought that no one really believed them.
Thanks to the Victorian parliamentary committee that conducted Australia’s most far-reaching investigation into child sexual abuse in religious organisations, men like “Stephen”, who is now in his 40s, have a chance.
Stephen went to school at St Patricks in Ballarat, a town where there once lived some of the most despicable men this country has known.
Best and Dowlan have been convicted and another pedophile Christian Brother, Gerald Fitzgerald, is dead, Father Paul Ryan has been jailed and there are others who can’t be named. All of them preyed viciously and habitually on children they had vowed to protect.
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