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Joanne McCarthy’s stories in The Newcastle Herald helped spark a world-first Royal Commission.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began in 2013 and concludes this year.
Joanne first started reporting the activities of paedophile priests in the Hunter-Maitland Diocese of the Catholic Church in 2002.
Many of their victims were very young children when they were terribly abused.
And while she’s won acclaim for her work, hearing so many victims’ stories has taken a toll.
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