AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Kerrin Thomas and Caitlin Furlong
Plans to set up a memorial for survivors and victims of child sexual abuse at a church in Armidale, in northern New South Wales, are being criticised by a support group.
The Catholic Diocese of Armidale is one of a number of organisations to have come before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, with the findings of a case study relating to a former priest yet to be handed down.
Bishop Michael Kennedy said the planned memorial on church grounds would replace a “temporary” memorial made up of ribbons tied to the cathedral’s fence and was an indication that the survivors and victims of child sexual abuse would not be forgotten.
“We do need something that will ensure there isn’t a continued silence on child abuse which unfortunately did occur for some years,” he said.
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