AUSTRALIA
Upper Yarra Mail
By KATH GANNAWAY
10th January 2013
FORMER St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School teacher Pam Krstic has worked closely with two parents of children abused by convicted Healesville priests and supported them in their efforts to achieve justice for their own children and protection for all children in the future.
The announcement last year of a Royal Commission into institutionalised abuse by clergy is a triumph for Pam and the Healesville victims of Catholic paedophile priests, which very much includes their families.
In 2006 she and Ian Lawther founded HEAR (Healesville Education and Awareness Raising) to advocate for the education of parents and teachers in schools to recognise grooming behaviour. At the same time they tackled the Catholic Church Melbourne Archdiocese’s practices for handling clergy sexual abuse under their flawed Melbourne Response.
Over the past six years Pam has challenged the Catholic Church’s Melbourne Response directly, advocating for and supporting the parents who dared to go to the police when the church didn’t.
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