AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
ALEX WHITE HERALD SUN AUGUST 15, 2014
A MAN will next week tell the Royal Commission into child sex abuse how a Catholic priest groomed and abused two generations of young men in his family over three decades.
Paul Hersbach, 37, will speak out against the late Father Victor Gabriel Rubeo at the inquiry’s first Melbourne hearings, starting on Monday.
Mr Hersbach suffered a decade of abuse from before the age of 10. Years later his father Tony revealed he had also been abused by the same priest.
The priest lived in the family home, accompanied them on holidays and even officiated at Mr Hersbach’s parents’ wedding and the baptism of four children — all the while perpetrating years of abuse.
Mr Hersbach says he triumphed over his attacker by breaking the cycle of abuse.
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