NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald
The Government is being asked to investigate alleged abuse within the Catholic Church, to give closure to survivors before they die.
Peter Hercock, a former chaplin at Sacred Heart College in Lower Hutt, has admitted two charges of rape, one of attempted rape and four of indecently assaulting a girl aged between 12 and 16.
He was last month sentenced to six years and seven months in jail, four decades after his offending began.
One of his victims, Ann-Marie Shelley, 60, is calling on the Government to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into sexual abuse in the New Zealand Catholic Church.
It follows a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse in Australia, which has looked into child sex abuse reported in the Victorian city of Ballarat.
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