AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
Posted July 05, 2012
The Catholic Bishop of Armidale says an independent investigation will review claims of sexual abuse raised by the ABC’s Four Corners program, but how are people affected by the events reacting?
Transcript
LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: A priest who allegedly abused children remains in the community with seemingly the full knowledge of senior figures in the Catholic Church.
The mother of one of the victims has spoken out about her complete loss of faith in the Church and 7.30’s tracked down one of the Catholic superiors implicated in the matter, but he has nothing to say about his failure to take information to the police.
Adam Harvey reports.
ADAM HARVEY, REPORTER: Armidale in the Northern Tablelands of NSW. The nights are cold this time of year, but it seems a quiet, safe place to live. Yet, in this wide back street lives a man whose presence here frightens some of his neighbours.
CAROL ELDER: Well I have an 11-year-old boy and he’s half a block from a local school and the children walk to and from school along here every day, and my boy, you know, he’s out in the backyard on his own. Is he looking at him? Is he watching him?
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