It took 30 years for the dark ripples of
historical child sexual abuse in Ballarat to build into one great wave
that crashed over Corey Artz in August when the 43-year-old Gold Coast
car salesman tried to take his own life.
The father of
three spent a week in Gold Coast University Hospital’s Melaleuca mental
health ward processing a “full mental breakdown” caused by seeing and
hearing the same child sexual abuse survivor across the nation’s media
on what felt like a daily basis calling on the Catholic Church to be
accountable for the crimes of Ballarat clergy members; the very same
abuse survivor who sexually abused him as a 12-year-old in Ballarat.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/royal-commission/ghost-of-abuse-past-brings-horror-to-life-for-corey-artz/news-story/7aa9f70b6272fdabde9dd26a051b44d1