AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN DECEMBER 10, 2013
A CATHOLIC priest created a “cult-like group” of teenage girls, fathering a child with one while telling another girl he was terminally ill and she “needed to have sex with him before he died”.
One of the victims, Joan Isaacs, yesterday told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that her attempts to warn the church about the actions of Frank Derriman were ignored and the priest was able to abuse again.
Ms Isaacs, who received several standing ovations while giving evidence at the Sydney hearing, is one of more than 2200 alleged child abuse victims to have contacted the Catholic Church.
The church has paid out more than $43 million in compensation nationwide, the commission heard, but many of the victims felt they had been mistreated during the church’s “Towards Healing” process for dealing with their claims.
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