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POSTED 04-11-2016
Australia announces $150,000 compensation for institutional child abuse victims, fails to oblige states and churches with opt-in scheme
In a first, Australian government has announced that survivors of institutional child abuse would be eligible for compensation up to $150,000 as part of a national redress scheme announced by the federal government.
POSTED 08-10-2016
99 candles in Ballarat
The powerful story of betrayal, denial and hope of Catholic sex abuse victims in Ballarat, Australia. Song available on CD. Based on factual interviews and real life experiences.
Song by Ian Whitehead, YouTube, Published on 08 October 2016
POSTED 05-09-2016
Hope that paedophile priest could be 'cured' was 'unrealistic'
A Maitland-Newcastle Diocesan official sent a priest who admitted to being attracted to young boys to a psychiatrist with the hope that he could be "cured," the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard on Friday.
POSTED 31-08-2016
Abuse inquiry hears evidence of serial paedophile Catholic priest in NSW
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard harrowing details about the dark past of the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese in New South Wales. Catholic priest Vincent Ryan was the focus of the first day of a highly-anticipated public hearing.
POSTED 15-08-2016
They destroyed Denis Ryan's police career. Now they admit he was right all along
"My own circumstances have been distinctly grim since I left the force but as dark as some of those days have been, they have no parallel with those forced to endure the pain and suffering of sexual abuse." Denis Ryan
POSTED 01-08-2016
ACT Government looks to remove time limit on sex abuse civil claims, allowing victims to sue institutions
Canberra survivors of institutional child sexual abuse will soon be able to pursue compensation in the courts regardless of when the abuse took place, if legislation to be introduced by the ACT Government passes the assembly.
POSTED 28-07-2016
An Open Letter to the Change-Maker Hillary Rodham Clinton on Behalf of Sexual Abuse Victims in the United States
Dear Democratic Presidential Candidate and Sec. Hillary Rodham Clinton:
I had the good fortune to attend the Democratic National Convention on July 26, 2016, to witness the Roll Call vote that would nominate you as the first woman ever to be a presidential candidate for either political party.
