AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Charlotte King
Victims of child sex abuse have joined more than 100 residents in a community march across Ballarat.
The march was intended to coincide with the child sex abuse royal commission’s public hearings into the Melbourne diocese, which is expected to start this week.
The second hearings into Ballarat clergy abuse will start as part of the same sitting.
The march was launched at the old St Alipius Primary School site, where five staff were found to be convicted paedophiles.
Several victims of child sex abuse were marching for the first time, including one survivor, who asked only to be named as Humphrey.
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