AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Survivors of abuse by Catholic clergy have gathered outside the royal commission in Sydney to call for justice.
Members of Care Leavers Australia Network and SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) carried placards and handed out leaflets as witnesses entered the hearing rooms of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday.
Nicky Davis from SNAP told AAP: ‘We want the truth, that some in the Church have been trying to suppress, to come out.’
The commission is starting two weeks of a public hearing into the Catholic Church’s internal process for dealing with allegations of child sexual abuse by its personnel.
Towards Healing was set up in 1996 to deal with the groundswell of abuse allegations against clergy and other who worked with the church.
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