AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
The director of a pastoral and redress scheme for victims of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church has conceded she lacked influence when dealing with the case of a woman who was abused by a priest for four years.
When she was 17 and in her final year of school, Jennifer Ingham was suffering from bulimia.
It was 1978. She was admitted to hospital, underwent psychological treatment and missed her exams.
Mrs Ingham also required surgery to her face for the condition, and asked to pause in her testimony at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse because she was in severe pain.
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