AUSTRALIA
Western Advocate
A WEBSITE dedicated to supporting victims of institutional childhood sexual abuse has done “a better job” of outing paedophilia then the Royal Commission, says one journalist who spent the best part of a decade reporting on the crimes.
Former Western Advocate journalist Terry Jones said the website, Broken Rites Australia, had done a phenomenal job in outing what he described as the shame of Bathurst – decades of sexual abuse against students at Bathurst boarding schools.
As the Royal Commission last week began the final hearing into Child Sexual Abuse involving the Catholic Church, Mr Jones said he was still at a loss to think there would be no public hearing held in Bathurst.
He said the city was epicentre of paedophilia and it defied logic a public hearing would not take place.
Mr Jones said the Broken Rites website had done what the Royal Commission should have done – “out this dreadful, horrendous thing which happened in Bathurst”.
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