AUSTRALIA
The Australian
RASHIDA YOSUFZAI
Australian Associated Press
March 13, 2017
Hundreds of Catholics are refusing to donate to the church until it apologises to the elderly mother of an alleged sexual abuse victim.
Eileen Piper, 92, is demanding an apology and compensation over her daughter’s alleged sexual abuse at the hands of Pallottine priest Gerard Mulvale.
Her 32-year-old daughter Stephanie killed herself in 1994, a year after she told her mother of about being sexually abused as a teenager.
Police charged Mulvale after Stephanie made a complaint, but she died before it came to trial. Mulvale was later convicted of sex crimes against two teenage boys.
Ms Piper last month met in private with Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart on the sidelines of a royal commission into child abuse hearing in Sydney.
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