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AAP
An elderly mother whose daughter killed herself after allegedly being raped by a priest says she hopes to confront a Catholic archbishop due to give evidence at a royal commission hearing.
Eileen Piper, 92, says she is pursuing justice and compensation from the church for her daughter Stephanie, 32, who took her life in January 1994 after she had allegedly been sexually abused by then-parish priest Gerard Mulvale while in her teens.
She told AAP she hopes to confront Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart outside Thursday’s hearing in Sydney and demand an apology from church authorities.
“I want them to alter the lies they’ve made and the … story they’ve told about Stephanie and to accept the truth before them, and in accepting the truth, pay me the compensation that Stephanie was deserving of,” Ms Piper said on Wednesday.
“She’s not here but I’m deserving of that too.”
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