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19 December 2015

Child sex abuse survivor: 'My belief in truth and justice has taken a beating'

Stephen Woods, a survivor of horrendous sexual abuse at the hands of three religious figures within the Diocese of Ballarat when he was a schoolboy, says his belief in truth and justice has “taken an utter beating” over the past fortnight.
Woods has sat and watched as most of the former priests working within the diocese between the 1970s and early 1990s told the royal commission into institutional responses into child sexual abuse that they could not recall information about being informed of the abuse by victims, their concerned parents, or church staff.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/19/child-sex-abuse-survivor-my-belief-in-truth-and-justice-has-taken-a-beating