AUSTRALIA
Riverine Herald
by ANDREW MOLE FEBRUARY 08, 2017
THE Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sex Abuse has ground along its painful trail of tears since 2015.
We have all seen the highlights on the news, seen figures as lofty as Cardinal George Pell dragged into the witness box and seen the pain of the survivors, the people seeking some form of justice for childhoods so brutally stolen.
That its insidious reach would be into every corner of Australia was never in doubt.
But that it would land on our doorsteps with such a sickening thud must have come to most, not just Catholics, as a bolt out of the blue.
The Diocese of Sandhurst, which covers us and the many Catholic schools in the region, has been implicated in the findings of the Royal Commission as one of the worst areas in 60 years of church-institutionalised abuse of boys and girls.
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