DUNEDIN (NEW ZEALAND)
Otago Daily Times
Oct. 10, 2019
“I could drink half a bottle of vodka right now and probably still have a lucid conversation with you,” he said.
Not now, now he’s dry.
He was a functioning alcoholic back then, but still, he couldn’t remember sending the email.
“The first line, and this was five years ago, was, ‘If there’s ever a Royal Commission in New Zealand, I will come back and give evidence’.
“And as I said, I didn’t remember writing it, and I got contacted three weeks later by the Church and it was a surprise.”
He has come back and has given evidence in Christchurch recently.
It is Marc’s second attempt to get some kind of justice for how he was robbed of his childhood in Dunedin in the 1980s by four Catholic leaders who sexually violated him for years.
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