AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By court reporter Peta Carlyon and staff
Updated 22 Aug 2014
A commissioner of the Catholic Church’s Melbourne Response has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that victims told him they wanted justice, not money.
Jeffery Gleeson QC, who investigates complaints of abuse under Commissioner Peter O’Callaghan QC, told the inquiry that victims just wanted to be believed.
“Complainants have told me, it’s not about the money, and I believe them,” Mr Gleeson said.
“I don’t think it’s about the money. It’s about being believed that that person, that priest, that brother, that nun abused them.
“I don’t speak for victims. But my sense for having spoken to them for so many years is that they need to know that there has been a factual finding.
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