WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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December 7, 2019
By Ben Dickinson
Two women who were teenage wards of the Home of the Good Shepherd in West Leederville in the 1970s say they were seriously neglected after they escaped sexual abuse elsewhere.
The women, Dallas Phillips and Cheryle Bandy, say they were often surrounded by unscrupulous male “visitors” to the house, and saw a relationship with a man as their only means of escape.
The home closed in 1979, and its main building in Ruislip Street is now occupied by the Catholic Education office.
Ms Phillips and Ms Bandy spoke after a rally outside the Supreme Court last week, where victims of child sex abuse called for compensation from the Catholic Church.
“Good Shepherd need to be exposed for what they did to girls like me,” Ms Phillips said.
“The nuns did nothing to protect us.”
Ms Phillips came to the West Leederville home at age 13, after she said she was sexually abused by monks in the Benedictine community of New Norcia.
“New Norcia was an evil, evil place,” Ms Phillips said.
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