AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Charlotte King
A survivor of clergy child sexual abuse has called on Catholic institutions in Melbourne to take the lead of a Ballarat school, after it offered the first public apology to its abuse victims.
St Patricks College is one of Ballarat’s most enduring Catholic institutions. Some students have graduated to become priests, archbishops and even a cardinal.
Cardinal George Pell was made school captain here in 1959.
But the school has also been the scene of trauma, violence and sexual abuse.
On Tuesday, at the foot of a red brick building which once housed the perpetrators, the school’s headmaster acknowledged the harm.
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