AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Sarah Farnsworth
The chair of the National Royal Commission into child sexual abuse has appealed for more staff to deal with the enormous challenge of taking evidence from abuse victims.
Justice Peter McClellan told a conference in Melbourne that the Commission had been inundated with people wanting to tell their stories.
Justice McClellan says he now realises that if the commission is to properly bear witness to child abuse across Australia, he needs more staff.
When the Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was set up, the laws were changed to allow people to tell their stories in private sessions.
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