THE Catholic Church has paid more than $25 million to Hunter child
sex abuse survivors, the royal commission has heard on a day when a nun
said she didn’t think the rape of a boy was a crime, and an abuse
survivor told of wanting to grab knives and kill a paedophile priest
when he was just 13.
“I didn’t do it. I should have,” Hunter man Gerard McDonald, 52, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about Father Vince Ryan on the first day of the 43rd public hearing, considering church responses to child sexual abuse in Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4134529/history-of-suffering-revealed-at-the-royal-commission/
“I didn’t do it. I should have,” Hunter man Gerard McDonald, 52, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse about Father Vince Ryan on the first day of the 43rd public hearing, considering church responses to child sexual abuse in Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4134529/history-of-suffering-revealed-at-the-royal-commission/