A FORMER Mortlake teacher was applauded after taking the stand at the royal commission into child sex abuse on Wednesday.
Ann Ryan, a teacher at St Colman's School in Mortlake from 1973 to 1996, revealed a Ballarat bishop lacked “compassion or empathy” when told about disgraced priest’s Gerard Ridsdale’s rampant sexual abuse in the town.
http://www.standard.net.au/story/3575493/speaking-up-applause/
Ann Ryan, a teacher at St Colman's School in Mortlake from 1973 to 1996, revealed a Ballarat bishop lacked “compassion or empathy” when told about disgraced priest’s Gerard Ridsdale’s rampant sexual abuse in the town.
http://www.standard.net.au/story/3575493/speaking-up-applause/