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… story Norman grew up in Victoria in the 1960s, in a large Catholic family. His uncle ‘was almost like a henchman for the Catholic Church … Looking back on it as an adult, I think my parents …

… And sports, I loved sports.’ Harvie also attended the local Catholic school for confirmation lessons, where the parish … the priest.’ Harvie disclosed the abuse to a teacher at the Catholic school. He doesn’t know what she did with the … ‘Dealt with it my way … I done a few things like pelted the church a couple of times with eggs and that, sort of being …

… This was enough to convince Olive’s devout Catholic mother that she needed to be put into a girls’ … was the worst six months of me life.’ Olive was sent to a Catholic convent in Melbourne. Soon after arriving she … together. Olive has received some compensation from the Church, but even after agreeing to a settlement there was no …

… Bede described his parents as ‘staunch’ and ‘typical Irish Catholic’, and it didn’t occur to him to tell them what Hara … Bede had never sought compensation nor approached the Catholic Church, because he didn’t have ‘a lot of trust there’. In …

… who’d left the family when Benny was five, took him to a Catholic boys’ home run by the Christian Brothers, some 60 … years’, he told the Commissioner. He hasn’t approached the Catholic Church for compensation. He received a $45,000 payment …

… she was seven years old. Blundell was the chaplain at her Catholic school, in Sydney’s north-west. The abuse happened in the presbytery next to the church, just across the road from the school. Dora isn’t … the religious studies and sex education teacher at her Catholic high school. Lennon asked her to meet him in the …

… you’d hope to God you weren’t next.’ Karl, one of a large Catholic family, attended a Christian Brothers school … to jail and I wanted him to suffer.’ Karl despises the Catholic Church. He blames the Christian Brothers order for the abuse …

… Vincent was 10 years old when his mother sent him to a Catholic boarding school in Queensland. During the year he … $40,000. ‘The only punishment you can inflict on the Catholic Church is taking their money from them. The thing they value …

… and violent’ father also sexually abused her. Born into a Catholic family of six children, Milly was one of the four … reported anything to police or to the institution or the Catholic Church which ran it, which ‘did me a lot of damage’. At the …

… still bleeding, Ralph went to the nurse at the Sydney Catholic boys' home. She removed the sock he had inserted in … was bedridden with diphtheria, his mother took him to a Catholic orphanage, handed him to a pair of nuns and walked … attention-seeker … It's always about the good name of the Church: we don't want a scandal … ' Now in his late 70s, …