For Melbourne institutional abuse lawyer Angela
Sdrinis, the "flashbacks" started when she was bathing her young
children and putting them to bed. "Those times when a lot of
clients had been abused — I had been doing those same things with my own
kids and getting secondary trauma," she said.
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In recent weeks the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard shocking figures about the extent of abuse in churches and religious orders. But it's a horror that survivors — and their lawyers — have had to endure for decades.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/lawyers-reveal-trauma-of-representing-child-sex-abuse-survivors/8270008
In recent weeks the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard shocking figures about the extent of abuse in churches and religious orders. But it's a horror that survivors — and their lawyers — have had to endure for decades.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/lawyers-reveal-trauma-of-representing-child-sex-abuse-survivors/8270008
