They call themselves "Nazzie girls" — children who
ended up in the care of the Sisters of Nazareth girls home in Ballarat
in the 1950s and 1960s.
Gabrielle Short does not hesitate when she is asked to summarise her childhood here. "Ninety-five per cent hell, torture, abuse, fear, terror," she says. In the early 1960s, paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale was their chaplain.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-25/royal-commission-abuse-victims-confront-nuns-caring-for-bishop/7197812
