AUSTRALIA
The Australian

Dan Box
From: The Australian
November 18, 2013

FOR the child abuse survivor known as CK, a recent cancer diagnosis was the best news he’d ever had. “The pain will stop,” he told an inquiry today.

In graphic evidence given this morning to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Assault, the former resident of a children’s home, placed there when he was just three years old, described a “pedophile ring” operating there.

Children living at the home in the Anglican Diocese of Grafton in northern NSW were beaten, raped and sexually abused by priests, only for the church to spend years fighting their subsequent attempts to seek compensation, the inquiry heard.

So great was the damage done to him and dozens of other children, that many, including his brother, had since committed suicide.