AUSTRALIA
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A WISE man once said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
With the exception of one word – “good” – this quote perfectly sums up the ongoing Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Day after day of heart-wrenching and anger-inducing testimony demonstrates that men in power did nothing to protect society’s most vulnerable from harm.
These men – men of the cloth, men of high standing, men of intellect – ceased being good men the moment they turned a blind eye to the abuses occurring.
The testimony of Father Lawrence O’Toole highlights the appalling – no, criminal – attitude that allowed child sexual abuse to flourish for decades across central Victoria.
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