AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Jennifer Ingham says she first understood the abuse inflicted on her was not her fault the moment her family priest cried and told her she was not the only victim of a Catholic Church sex predator.
But as far as Father Frank Mulcahy is concerned, that meeting 23 years ago never happened.
He has denied attending any meeting with senior church figures, Mrs Ingham and her then-husband in early 1990, at which she allegedly disclosed abuse she had suffered as a teenager and young woman at the hands of Father Paul Rex Brown.
And although Fr Mulcahy knew her father from their boarding school days and gave him communion on his deathbed in Lismore, the retired clergyman says he didn’t know who Mrs Ingham was.
Both gave evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney on Thursday.
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