AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
The real-life Angel: The rebel priest who has helped more than 80 victims of church paedophiles deal with the trauma of abuse at the hands of evil clergy
By JOHN CARNEY FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
Even as a royal commission exposes sickening details of a paedophile ring involving Catholic clergy in the Victorian town of Ballarat, one priest is picking up the emotional and physical wreckage wrought by the evil side of a religion he has given his life to.
Father Kevin Dillon, priest for St Mary of the Angels parish in Geelong, south of Melbourne, for the past 15 years, will accompany eight victims to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse inquiry who have been physically and sexually abused by priests and Christian Brothers.
He is a confidante and spiritual guide for more than 80 people from all over Australia who endured child abuse at the hands of the clergy.
It is a role he never planned for, but which now provides essential support and trust to the victims.
It all began in 2008 on Neil Mitchell’s 3AW radio show in Melbourne. A live phone-in was taking place about the Foster family.
Christine and Anthony Foster had three daughters. Two of them, Emma and Katie, were sexually abused at a young age by a Catholic priest.
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