AUSTRALIA
The Newcastle Herald
August 19, 2018
By Joanne McCarthy
NSW Catholic MP Catherine Cusack has slammed the “male hierarchy” of the church for “trashing” people’s faith because of the child sexual abuse tragedy, in a speech to Parliament backing a Hunter abuse survivor.
The sexual abuse of children and the church’s cover-ups of that abuse were “a total failure of everything we were told our church stood for”, Ms Cusack said in a speech on Wednesday after petitioning Attorney-General Mark Speakman on behalf of Hunter survivor Rob Roseworne.
“Everything I was literally taught from birth was trashed by the evidence (at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse).”
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