AUSTRALIA
The Courier
Melissa Cunningham
@MeljCunningham
17 Mar 2017
Anne Levey is racked with guilt.
Once a devout Catholic, Ms Levey still has faith in God — but she can’t bring herself to step inside a Catholic Church.
She doesn’t accept dogma from any church, not since her son Paul was sexually abused at the hands of disgraced paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale.
“I blame myself, every day I blame myself,” she says. “I can’t help it.
“You go to bed and you’re thinking about it. You wake up and you’re thinking about it, but you just have to keep going. You live with it every day, the guilt, regret and the shame.”
Ms Levey is one of scores of secondary victims of the child sexual abuse scandal caught up in a cycle of entrenched pain.
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