The father of a boy who was sexually
abused by a Catholic priest was asked by a senior cleric not to go to
police and told that to do so might be harmful to his child.
Giving
evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child
Sexual Abuse this morning, the boy’s mother, Karolyn Graham, said she
“was horrified and felt intimidated by the church” as a result. Her son, Michael McGroder, told the commission he was sexually abused by
his parish priest when he was serving as an altar boy in Moree,
northern NSW, in 1984.http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/in-depth/royal-commission/abuse-royal-commission-frank-ryan-asked-victims-father-not-to-go-to-police/news-story/ae94dce46cdf107c6830ec389f8edfad