‘Pell is the head Catholic figure in the country, and he should be here,
standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the survivors,’ says lawyer
representing victims. abuse survivors. On
Monday, survivors of child sexual abuse, their supporters, 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 take on the massive job of independently investigating child sexual abuse within churches and other institutions throughout Australia, will once again turn its attention to the Diocese of Ballarat.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/20/ballarat-prepares-for-child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-while-cardinal-pell-stays-away
The royal commission into institutional responses into child sexual abuse, tasked by the federal government in 2013 to take on the massive job of independently investigating child sexual abuse within churches and other institutions throughout Australia, will once again turn its attention to the Diocese of Ballarat.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/20/ballarat-prepares-for-child-sexual-abuse-inquiry-while-cardinal-pell-stays-away
