A parish priest in Tasmania has revealed for the first
time he himself was abused by a priest as a schoolboy at Burnie's Marist
Regional College, and says he wants to encourage others to come
forward. Father John Girdauskas told the ABC he was first sexually abused by Father Laurie Gallagher in the 1970s, when he was 14.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-24/catholic-priest-reveals-his-own-abuse-as-a-schoolboy/11241034
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