AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Dan Cox
A woman whose son was sexually abused by a Catholic priest has told a NSW inquiry she was ostracised for speaking out.
A woman whose son was sexually abused by a Catholic priest has told an inquiry into clerical abuse in the Hunter Valley that she was ostracised for speaking out.
The special commission of inquiry has been examining claims the church covered up abuse by two priests in the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese, James Fletcher and Denis McAlinden.
Fletcher died in jail two years into a 10-year sentence for abusing a boy know to the inquiry as AH.
AH’s mother today told the inquiry she was subjected the prank phone calls, had eggs thrown at her house and was shunned in the street after the allegations were raised.
She described an altercation in a supermarket where a man rammed a shopping trolley into her leg because he was upset at the allegations levelled at Fletcher.
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