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Royal Commission's message to Australia

"Cardinal George Pell's committal hearing date set for March"

Helen Pitt December 14 2017 - 8:13PM

The final sitting of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse was packed to
overflowing Thursday and ended with a standing ovation when Justice Peter McClellan concluded his message.

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But the elephant in the hearing room was all those who weren't there. The absence of the many thousands more victims of sexual abuse, who found peace from their endless torture
"the only way they knew how by taking their lives," as Joan Isaacs, one of the first to give evidence against the Catholic church four years ago said later outside the hearing room.

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Also absent were Catholic Archbishops, bishops and hierarchy of that denomination, where the greatest number of alleged perpetrators and cases of abuse took place. Also absent was Anthony
Foster who died earlier this year after years of tireless campaigning on behalf of his daughters Emma and Katie, who were repeatedly raped by disgraced Melbourne priest Kevin O'Donnell.

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While the Prime Minister attempted to leave the child abuse royal commission through the back door without answering questions, Bill Shorten met with abuse survivors
out the front of Governor Macquarie Tower. He said a proper compensation deal for survivors was necessary but "that doesn't give them back a stolen childhood".

http://www.smh.com.au/national/royal-commissions-message-to-australia-20171214-h04fin.html

Unbelievable that no church hierarchy were there. Surely attendance could have
been seen as sincere apology for abuse of children committed, and covered up.

Flick through this one. You won't be disappointed.

The key events that led to the child abuse royal commission

Updated Wed at 11:13am

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The execution of John Kelly

May 23, 1867

Victorian man John Kelly was sentenced to death by Sir Redmond Barry for committing "an unnatural offence on a male child aged only 18 months". Survivor advocate Chrissie Foster said
this was proof child sex offenders were always prosecuted in Australia, disproving the idea perpetuated by some church officials that child rape was unknown or not considered a crime.

A complaint against a Catholic priest

1958

A scoutmaster in suburban Dandenong told senior figures at the Archdiocese of Melbourne that Catholic priest Kevin O'Donnell
was molesting boys. The church allowed the priest to continue running parishes, and assaulting children, for another 35 years.

Assistant priest Father Anthony Guelen observed Fr O'Donnell engaging in "inappropriate
behaviour" with a young boy in the presbytery bedroom, but he later denied the allegation.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-12/royal-commission-child-sexual-abuse-timeline/9222816

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Child sexual abuse royal commission hands over stories of survivors in book 'too heavy to lift'
By Nour Haydar and Staff
Updated yesterday at 3:36pm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-14/child-sex-abuse-royal-commission-final-hearing/9257944

They abuse children. They abuse women, How anyone could cherish and respect any
of these churches as integral in their personal lives is almost beyond comprehension.

It's still an exclusive, exploitative, fairy-tale world, isn't it.

LOL. At least have them pay some share of income tax.

See also:

Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson faces magistrate-alone trial in Newcastle over alleged abuse cover-up
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