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Mark KearneyMark Kearney
@mnkearney
19 Jul 2016
A documentary detailing the pain endured by survivors of sexual abuse will screen at a Bendigo church on Wednesday night.
Epsom Community Church will show Humble Hope, a film featuring the stories of nine people who were victims of sexual assault in their childhood.
It also explains the role religion has played in their recovery.
Survivor Mark Stiles, who was interviewed for the film, will appear at the screening on Wednesday.
Mr Stiles was abused by Salvation Army officers while living at Gill Memorial Boys’ Home in Goulburn, New South Wales, in the early 1970s, crimes he has recounted to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
He hoped the film could help ease other survivors’ suffering.
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