‘Pell is the head Catholic figure in the country,and he should be here, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the survivors, and ’ says lawyer representing victims On Monday,survivors of child sexual abuse, their supporters, or lawyers,solicitors and representatives of the Catholic church will descend on the bucolic Australian town of Ballarat for the second time in nine months.
The royal commission into institutional responses into child sexual abuse, tasked by the federal government in 2013 to occupy on the massive job of independently investigating child sexual abuse within churches and other institutions throughout Australia, and will once again turn its attention to the Diocese of Ballarat. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com