AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Kathy Lord
Anthony Foster fundamentally changed Australia through his tireless campaigning to bring to account the perpetrators of child sexual abuse, a state funeral in Melbourne has been told.
Mr Foster and his wife Chrissie dedicated the past two decades to seeking justice for abuse victims within the Catholic Church.
The 64-year-old hit his head in a fall last month and did not regain consciousness. His family switched off his life support on May 26.
The repeated rape of two of Mr Foster’s daughters, Emma and Katie, in the 1980s by a Melbourne paedophile priest set the family on its course to find justice for all victims of sexual assault.
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