AUSTRALIA
Broken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article posted 16 December 2013)
A sex-abuse victim has told a Royal Commission that he was made to feel like he was robbing the Catholic Church when he applied for compensation for his damaged life.
In Sydney on 16 December 2013, this victim (who is being referred to as “Mister DG”) gave evidence at Australia’s national Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The commission has begun examining the “Towards Healing” process established by the Catholic Church to handle the church’s sex-abuse victims.
“Mr DG” said he was sexually abused in his family home by Brother Raymond Foster in 1970, when he was 13 years old. DG was attending a Marist Brothers school in Queensland at the time.
And Broken Rites knows that DG was not Brother Foster’s only victim.
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