Royal commission hears evidence about the Catholic church's dealings with victims through its Towards Healing program A retired bishop of Brisbane has told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse
that it “didn’t cross [his] mind” to question a priest who had
allegedly told a teenage girl to “look for someone your own age” when
she reported that another priest had sexually abused her.
Bishop John Gerry, the former representative for the Brisbane archdiocese in Towards Healing facilitation meetings with victims of sexual abuse by clergy, was giving evidence in the public hearing examination of Towards Healing’s dealings with Joan Isaacs, a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of priest Frank Derriman in the 1960s when she was 15 and 16.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/priest-allegedly-told-abuse-victim-look-for-someone-your-own-age
Bishop John Gerry, the former representative for the Brisbane archdiocese in Towards Healing facilitation meetings with victims of sexual abuse by clergy, was giving evidence in the public hearing examination of Towards Healing’s dealings with Joan Isaacs, a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of priest Frank Derriman in the 1960s when she was 15 and 16.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/priest-allegedly-told-abuse-victim-look-for-someone-your-own-age