AUSTRALIA
ABC – PM
MARK COLVIN: Meanwhile, a lot of people in Ballarat are on edge to hear the testimony of the city’s former bishop Ronald Mulkearns at the Royal Commission tomorrow.
Some victims have waited decades for the bishop to respond to allegations that he ignored complaints that his priests were abusing children.
He’s also been accused of moving paedophile priests from parish to parish during his term between the years of 1971 and 1997.
Bishop Mulkearns is expected to give his evidence by video link from his Ballarat nursing home tomorrow.
Today, some of the victims of the ergion’s most infamous paedophile priest, Gerald Ridsdale, took their complaints to the door of that home.
Charlotte King reports from Ballarat.
CHARLOTTE KING: They call themselves ‘Nazzie girls’: children who ended up in the care of the Sisters of Nazareth girls’ home in Ballarat in the 1950s and ‘60s.
GABRIELLE SHORT: Ninety-five per cent hell. Yeah torture, abuse, fear, terror.
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