AUSTRALIA
Anadolu Agency (Turkey)
By Recep Sakar
MELBOURNE, Australia
Days after Australia’s most senior Catholic gave evidence from the Vatican on sexual abuse by priests, one of those abused has told Anadolu Agency of the extent of the suffering.
“I was abused in my own house and my older brothers were abused and other siblings. I had three sisters — they were all abused,” says Tim Lane, who is now 44, but was just four-years-old when he became a priest’s victim in the Victoria state diocese of Ballarat.
“It is a terrible thing… a terrible thing to live with.”
Lane is just one of the many Australians who were abused by priests in their homes, at churches and at religious seminaries in the cities of Ballarat and Melbourne during the 1970s and 1980s.
Last Monday, senior Catholic Cardinal George Pell insisted to a royal inquiry into child sex abuse that while he was a priest in Ballarat, he was unaware such offenders were being moved between parishes to escape prosecution, and to protect the reputation of the church.
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