IT is two days before an Australian royal commission questions a
cardinal in Rome about child sexual abuse, and a Hunter man is thinking
about how it all started, with the death of his son.
John Pirona’s suicide in July, 2012, after he was sexually abused by Catholic priest John Denham as a child and left a final note that ended with the words “Too much pain”, was the catalyst for the Newcastle Herald’s Shine the Light campaign for a royal commission.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3754039/pell-the-pope-and-a-legacy/
John Pirona’s suicide in July, 2012, after he was sexually abused by Catholic priest John Denham as a child and left a final note that ended with the words “Too much pain”, was the catalyst for the Newcastle Herald’s Shine the Light campaign for a royal commission.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/3754039/pell-the-pope-and-a-legacy/