AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
WHISTLEBLOWERS who spoke out about child abuse in the Anglican church received death threats and were “effectively excommunicated”, a Victorian parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Former Anglican priest Paul Walliker told the inquiry church members who reported cases of child abuse were publicly shamed and given no support from the church.
Fr Walliker said he was refused communion in the 1990s after blowing the whistle on a parish priest who was involved with a student in regional Victoria.
“The support we received from the diocese was zip, zero, zilch,” Fr Walliker said.
He said his children were harassed at church, in their workplace and while walking to school by supporters of the offending priest, and he was forced to live in secrecy.
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