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… you sell us drugs.’ After about a year ‘they sold me to the Catholics … they handed me over to the church people’. Adam was taken to meet a Salesian Brother … reported the abuse out of fear of retribution from the Catholics, the bikers and the police. Adam has, though, told …

… a period of four years, while she was a student at a small Catholic primary school in regional Western Australia. The abuse happened in the classroom, in the church and on a school trip to a lake. It was the mid 1960s … abuse, only choosing kids from local families, committed Catholic families such as Pamela’s, and girls from migrant …

… that she and her husband experienced as a result of the Church and police responses. When Shannon attended a private … Some of the private lessons were conducted at a nearby Catholic church, where Blake was doing some work. Blake also … Some of the private lessons were conducted at a nearby Catholic church, where Blake was doing some work. Blake also …

… 2010s, more than 30 years after he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest and teacher at his school, the death had a … Burton said. ‘I was still going to mass. We were … good Catholics. I can tell you we are not any more. We have strong views about the Catholic Church and the hierarchy, not just because of what happened …

… talk about it.’ Ivan said that when he was growing up as a Catholic in the 1960s in Melbourne, everyone respected the … my family will get hurt, and we’ll get kicked out of the Catholics, out of the school, the Church, all that. So I just didn’t tell anybody. And he …

… of his earliest memories is of walking into a little wooden church and being taken over by a sense of mystery. His … and started junior-level training to become a Brother in a Catholic order. While he loved being part of the community, … wrote a letter on his behalf to the leader of a different Catholic order and one day Leon Delaney turned up at his …

… to be in 30 years time? They’re not going to be in your church”, and by this stage I’m so angry.’ Eventually Father … city. Feeling dispirited with the poor response from the Catholic Church, Lisbeth and the family decided they had ‘to … and they moved to the city. Joshua was enrolled in another Catholic school but after Lisbeth ‘was getting the gut …

… Sophia’s family adhered strictly to the teachings of the Catholic Church and visits by Father Iliffe to the family home were … the mid-2000s, Sophia’s sisters encouraged her to ring the Catholic Church’s Office of Professional Standards to report …

… that he should be sent to a boys’ home run by the Anglican Church. During the time he was at the home, Darryl was … is still in contact with his former house father. All the Catholic children at the centre were made to march down the … is still in contact with his former house father. All the Catholic children at the centre were made to march down the …

… He was labelled an uncontrollable child and placed into a Catholic orphanage in a suburb of Brisbane. He was … but it took him several years for him to engage in the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process. The experience was …