HOPE MUST PREVAIL: Survivors of clergy sexual abuse will continue to
fight an uphill battle until the Catholic Church acknowledges the extent
to which it covered-up sex crimes against children. A survivor likened the Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse to peeling back the layers on an onion.
Each time you peel back a layer, there is another underneath but slowly and steadily you move closer to the core of it. To the truth. With each layer another survivors emerges from out of the darkness with their own story to tell. Often, their stories are so gut-wrenchingly similar, it's as if each of the survivors are holding a mirror to one another. And, there are those who don't have a voice because they've died prematurely and the ones who turned to suicide because the pain of the sex crimes was too great to bear. The commission gives the ones they left behind somewhere to finally place their precious story in the hope their death will be a part of a profound change to protect children of the future.
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3579441/truth-must-rise-above-all/
Each time you peel back a layer, there is another underneath but slowly and steadily you move closer to the core of it. To the truth. With each layer another survivors emerges from out of the darkness with their own story to tell. Often, their stories are so gut-wrenchingly similar, it's as if each of the survivors are holding a mirror to one another. And, there are those who don't have a voice because they've died prematurely and the ones who turned to suicide because the pain of the sex crimes was too great to bear. The commission gives the ones they left behind somewhere to finally place their precious story in the hope their death will be a part of a profound change to protect children of the future.
http://www.thecourier.com.au/story/3579441/truth-must-rise-above-all/