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… when I did finally disclose the abuse as a teenager at my Catholic high school I wasn’t believed and I was put into a … of its occurrence, Abi would leave handwritten notes in the church, promising God she’d stop sinning and asking for the … told that she was ‘beyond reform’ and expelled from her Catholic school, Abi went to an Anglican high school. A …

… he was seven years old, he and his siblings were sent to a Catholic Aboriginal mission in remote Western Australia. At … go to school’. Still, ‘I wasn’t too keen on the way the Catholics crossed themselves, ‘cause that was part of it – you had to go to church ... Indoctrination I call it’. One day an older boy …

… believes he recognised some of them by voice and smell as Catholic chaplains who were attached to the Victorian … at that time. Hayden believes paedophile rings within the Catholic Church became entrenched in the first half of the 20th …

… sexually abused on multiple occasions by a teacher at his Catholic school in Tasmania. She didn’t know anything about … late 1990s, Belinda and her husband got in touch with the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing. Mickey himself wasn’t well enough …

… Zander's story Zander attended an all-boys Catholic school in Sydney, where he was an avid sports … the abuse. His father accompanied him to report to the Catholic Church and he sought compensation through Towards Healing. …

… Gerry Thomas's story Gerry was born into a devout Catholic family and grew up in a large regional Western … he was in his early teens, and started skipping out of church during services and hanging around with his mates … of his psychiatrist’s fees. … Gerry was born into a devout Catholic family and grew up in a large regional Western …

… Barnaby William's story Barnaby’s Catholic mother died in the early 1950s when he was four, … and her dying wish was for her children to be raised as Catholics. He was sent to two Catholic schools run by the … was not to know about this, otherwise it would damage the Church’. Sometime later, Barnaby was called to Brother …

… a sexual aspect to them as well. The perpetrators were the Catholic priests and Brothers who ran Justin’s boarding … such as ‘talking after lights out’ and ‘smiling in church’. The most irrational and violent of all the … The change came when Justin saw a newspaper article about a Catholic priest who’d been convicted for ‘doing exactly the …

… not sure.’ Maude was born in New South Wales into a large Catholic family. ‘Mum was a very devout Catholic. We went to the local Catholic schools and church on Sunday wasn’t a choice.’ She doesn’t recall when …

… when Katrina was 10, she and her sisters were taken to a Catholic orphanage in rural New South Wales. When they … insult to injury.’ ‘I believe in God, [but] as far as the Catholic Church goes, I believe they’re evil. They’re an evil entity, …