Church and state oppose a Royal Commission at the expense of clergy’s victims

Report after damning report is rapidly revealing the dirty secrets of the Catholic Church. As fresh allegations and evidence abound, it seems we have a seismic shift in the battle for justice for victims and their families in relation to clergy sex crimes and their concealment.

Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox of NSW Police wrote to NSW Premier O’Farrell saying that he had “seen the worst society can dredge up, particularly the evil of paedophilia within the Catholic Church". Fox has worked in the Maitland-Newcastle region of NSW, an area where (like Ballarat in Victoira) paedophile rings of Catholic clergy were allowed to run free.

This claim by Fox is not only damning, but the things it speaks of are repugnant. Children are brutally sodomised and raped; they are beaten and bashed; they are forced to do things to these adult male sexual predators. The minds of these children are so acutely distorted they may never trust again. They are intensely sad, profoundly confused and so filled with terror and fear they are unable to disclose the crimes for many years, if at all.

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