AUSTRALIA
Coffs Coast Advocate
Sherele Moody | 5th Mar 2016
ANTHONY Foster was there when victims of clergy child sex abuse met Cardinal George Pell for an hour in Rome yesterday.
Two of Mr Foster’s three daughters, Emma and Katie, were both assaulted by a Melbourne priest.
Emma later took her own life.
The group of survivors and victims’ relatives said they were happy with their emotional and exhaustive session of sharing personal stories of loss and betrayal with Cardinal Pell.
Afterwards, the Cardinal said he would look into setting up a research centre in Ballarat to be “an effective centre for the example of practical help for all those wounded by the scourge of sexual abuse”.
He would also work to better protect children and young people.
Cardinal Pell copped widespread criticism this week for consistently denying before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that he knew children were being abused while he worked in the Ballarat Diocese.
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