AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
By Annette Blackwell, AAP
Updated December 11, 2013
Jennifer Ingham wants to know why one good, fearless person never stepped up against the wrongs and depravities in the Catholic Church.
Ms Ingham, 51, had been “held captive” by Father Paul Brown, a parish priest in Lismore in NSW who abused her from the time she was 16 in 1978 until 1982.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard on Wednesday how Brown took advantage of her extreme vulnerability.
He continued his abuse after she finished school, secured a waitressing job in Sydney for her, arranged to meet her regularly at a motel in Glebe and would pay for her to fly to his home at St Joseph’s Parish Church, Tweed Heads.
Ms Ingham said she suffered bulimia, had ongoing psychiatric problems and attempted suicide.
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