AUSTRALIA
Sky News
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Victims got everything they could have hoped for from the Victorian report on child sex abuse, but it can never be enough.
Mick Serch said as great as the inquiry was, the scar of abuse can’t ever be healed.
‘You can put a bandaid on it but it keeps falling off,’ Mr Serch told AAP.
Since he suffered sex abuse at the hands of a Christian Brother when he was in grade five at St Leo’s College in Box Hill, Mr Serch has endured chronic depression, panic attacks and suicidal thoughts.
‘I’ve also got paranoid schizophrenia which they say is due to the abuse,’ he said.
Mr Serch attended a victims’ ‘rally of hope’ on the steps of parliament after the report was tabled on Wednesday.
‘The more of this sort of thing we have the better for everyone,’ he said.
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