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Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… found herself living in an orphanage run by an order of Catholic nuns. She was there for three years and suffered … Madelyn is thinking about taking her story to the Catholic Church and asking for an apology at least, and an …Keith Alan's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… interested. He thought ‘all I need do is convince them, the Catholic Church, that Ward was an abuser. Not quite that simple’. … to him about his earlier abuse. Confessional crap only a Catholic would understand.’ Before his last session with …Van's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… spend time with patients.’ Father Ronald Pittman was the Catholic priest in the Western Australian town where Van … died, but he will consider seeking compensation from the Catholic Church now, to cover his medical bills over the years. Van …Kaleb's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… was a shock to Kaleb as a 13-year-old when he arrived at a Catholic boarding school in Queensland and saw so few women. … think he would, though he’d recently received a letter from Catholic Church authorities outlining the work of the Royal …Hamish's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… story At the age of three months, Hamish was placed in a Catholic orphanage in Western Australia. He stayed there … he didn’t seek an apology or financial recompense from the Catholic Church and doubted he ever would, as he thought it would be …Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN)
… weeks the Commission commenced a public hearing into the Catholic diocese of Ballarat. There are a number of reasons … been abused the fabric of the community, particularly the Catholic community, has been significantly impacted. I have … their offending conduct and help us to understand how the church responded or failed to respond to that conduct. They …Mirabella's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… story ‘We were the perfect prey – so trusting and the Church knowingly sent him to us, and he has harmed our … Minister Julia Gillard for their contributions. ‘I want the Catholic Church to realise they can never, ever afford to … Minister Julia Gillard for their contributions. ‘I want the Catholic Church to realise they can never, ever afford to …Harper's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… wanna go anymore”.’ When Harper was in Grade 2 at the local Catholic primary school in the mid-1980s, there was a … reason for his dismissal was not disclosed. ‘We were in the church practising for a school concert, end of year concert. … bright and happy to withdrawn, her grandmother wrote to the Catholic Education Office as well as the archbishop about …Jaden William's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… who died in the mid-2000s. Martin was sexually abused by a Catholic priest and two Brothers in the early 1970s, when he … his primary school years, Martin began to rebel against the Catholic Church and the Christian Brothers, and was expelled from two …Doug's story
Content warning: This story is about child sexual abuse. It may contain graphic descriptions and strong language, and may be confronting and disturbing. If you need help, please see support services… to protect her. Sometime later, Doug was sent to live at a Catholic boarding school in Tasmania. For the next five … his abusers to police or pursuing legal action against the Church. ‘I just haven’t wanted to speak to anybody about it … to protect her. Sometime later, Doug was sent to live at a Catholic boarding school in Tasmania. For the next five …