Sex abuse victims call for ‘ironclad’ laws to protect kids

AUSTRALIA
The Courier

Melissa Cunningham
2 Mar 2017

Clergy sexual abuse survivors say they will not rest until “ironclad laws” are implemented to protect future generations of children from pedophilia.

Victims of disgraced Christian brother Robert Best embraced outside the Victorian County Court on Thursday, moments after the notorious paedophile was sentenced to another six years in jail.

It was 16,000 kilometres from where four of the men had stood on the steps of the Hotel Quirinale in Rome on the same day last year.

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