AUSTRALIA
SBS
By Abby Dinham
21 MAY 2015
(Transcript from World News Radio)
There have been further calls for Cardinal George Pell to front the child sexual abuse Royal Commission hearings in Ballarat, as harrowing victim accounts continued to be heard.
However Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he believes Cardinal Pell is actively dealing with the issues.
Abby Dinham reports.
A life time of living with the scars of sexual abuse has taken its toll on Stephen Woods.
“They had entrusted their most precious things to the church… and the church abused them.”
Raped and assaulted by three men in the Ballarat Catholic school system, Mr Woods wants answers from the town’s former Catholic Vicar General for Education.
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