AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Lucy McNally
A woman whose father was sexually and physically abused at an Anglican Church-run home in New South Wales says she will keep fighting for compensation money for her family, even though the church has rejected her claim because she is a “secondary victim”.
Kim Brannigan barely knew her father Wayne for the first 26 years of her life.
Scarred by an horrific upbringing of sexual and physical abuse at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore, he was a heavy drinker who would erupt in fits of rage when remembering the men and women responsible for robbing him of his childhood.
But when Ms Brannigan reunited with her father as an adult, she formed a close bond with him and saw first-hand the devastating effects the abuse had on him.
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