AUSTRALIA
WA Today
January 22, 2014
Annette Blackwell
A cup of tea and a lie-down was once the Catholic Church’s attitude towards rehabilitation of victims of abuse.
But times and the church have changed, the director of the church’s Professional Standards Office for NSW/ACT told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Wednesday.
Michael Salmon defended Towards Healing, the church’s internal process for dealing with abuse complainants.
He has facilitated hundreds of sessions with victims and at Wednesday’s hearing denied he kept the fact he was employed by the church from a victim identified as DK – a now 49-year-old man abused by three different members of the clergy while a student at St Augustine’s College in Cairns in 1976.
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