AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Rachel Browne
The damage inflicted by childhood abuse is lifelong and catastrophic but support services for victims are “grossly inadequate”, a royal commission has heard.
Shelly Braieoux told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse she still suffers decades after allegedly being abused in a religious organisation.
The 45-year-old mother of four has ongoing physical and mental health problems including depression, anxiety and panic attacks.
“Even though we may have physically survived, we have been sentenced to a torturous life sentence full of unnumbered battles,” she said.
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