Validation Is a Start, Say Victims

By Rachel Baxendale
The Australian
November 14, 2013

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/state-politics/validation-is-a-start-say-victims/story-e6frgczx-1226759355844#mm-premium

LEONIE Sheedy witnessed brutality almost every day of the 13 years she spent in a Catholic orphanage as a child.

Yesterday, the Care Leavers Australia Network founder and spokeswoman said she was pleased with the recommendations of the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other non-government organisations, but felt that it should have included abuse in state-run institutions in its terms of reference.