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Sex abuse victims who went to a Catholic Church mediation with a lawyer would lose the right to pastoral support, an inquiry has been told.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is looking at the church’s internal process for dealing with sex abuse victims.
It was told on Tuesday the approach in the late 1990s was a standard one and required an insured to make no admission of liability.
The commission is examining the experience of four abuse victims who went through the Church’s Towards Healing procedure, which was established in 1996.
The process failed Joan Isaacs, who was abused by a priest when she was 14 and 15 while attending a convent school in Brisbane, the commission heard on Monday.
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