AUSTRALIA
Huffongton Post
[with videos]
Eoin Blackwell Senior Associate Editor, HuffPost Australia
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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual abuse has for the first time published nine audio accounts of survivors’ experiences, in a move it hopes will bolster community understanding of abuse.
The nine private session stories tell of abuse that occurred in schools, children’s homes, state-run institutions and Aboriginal missions from the 1950’s to the 2000’s.
The Commission said the stories are accurate summaries of what was said in the private sessions, however names have been changed to protect the identity of the survivors, and actors have been used in the recordings.
Natalie’s Story Features A Catholic Priest Who Visited Her Primary School In The 1980s. She Was 11 Years Old.
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