Victims Want to Be Consulted about the Terms of Reference

By Rick Morton
The Australian
November 13, 2012

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/victims-want-to-be-consulted-about-the-terms-of-reference/story-fn59niix-1226515450072

SURVIVORS of sexual abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church have expressed shock that a federal royal commission into decades-long abuse has finally been announced, calling the decision a chance to "end the betrayal".

Nicky Davis, 49, who says she was assaulted for six years during the 1970s and 1980s by a Brother in a parish in Sydney's north, said the news was almost too big to digest.

Ms Davis said the abuse she suffered tormented her for years until she finally reported it in 2008 after seeing advertisements for Catholic World Youth Day.

"I have suffered and thousands of others like me have suffered a sort of re-abuse at the hands of the church as they try to make all of this go away," she told The Australian.