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A Catholic bishop showed no compassion for victims of a pedophile priest, an inquiry has heard.
Retired school teacher Ann Ryan said she tried to get former Ballarat bishop Ronald Mulkearns to help families still hurting from the abuse inflicted by Gerald Francis Ridsdale in the Victorian town of Mortlake in 1981 and 1982.
Ms Ryan told the child abuse royal commission a local woman told her in 1989 her son had been badly sexually abused by Ridsdale.
Ms Ryan, who taught at Mortlake’s St Colman’s Parish School, said she contacted Bishop Mulkearns a number of times and was angered by his responses.
“I thought he showed no compassion, empathy or intent to do something to help the victims and their families,” she told the commission.
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