Facebook UnFriends Life Sites Title: Sex abuse survivors lose archive as Facebook removes news from ‘life saving’ site Author: Rhiannon Shine Publisher: ABC News Date: 18FEB2021 A survivor of clergy abuse who started a Facebook group to help other survivors says he is “devastated” by the social media giant’s decision to block Australian news. Key
Pell Frame Claims ludicrous Title: Claim bribes paid to frame George Pell as sex abuser ‘ludicrous’, complainant’s father says Authors: Nino Bucci & Melissa Davey Publisher: The Guardian Date: 09OCT2020 No evidence has been released to support allegations reported in Italy that a large payment was made to Australia. Even the staunchest George Pell supporters conceded
Britain’s Child Abuse Reckoning Title: Britain’s reckoning with past systemic child abuse is long overdue Author: Caelainn Hogan Publisher: The Guardian Date: 26SEP2020 Ireland has started trying to rectify the wrongs of its history. The UK is lagging behind. When the pope said mass in Ireland in 2018, a vast field in Dublin’s Phoenix Park
Case of George Pell Title: Melissa Davey – The Case of George Pell Presenter: Jesse Mulligan talks with Melissa Davey From Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan, Publisher: RNZ National Date: 10AUG2020 Every hearing, every trial, mistrial, retrial, every appeal against charges that Australian Cardinal George Pell sexually abused two 13 year old boys, Melissa Davey was
Denton Guam Apuron Niland Title: ‘Look what he’s taken from me’: the deadly toll of Catholic church sex abuse on Guam Author: Anita Hofschneider Publisher: The Guardian Date: 30MAY2020 Roosters crow in the distance as Walter Denton gestures toward a white one-storey concrete building behind a church in Agat, a village in southern Guam. “You
Silence Church Weapon Self-destruction Title: Opinion: Silence in the Catholic church may be its weapon of self-destruction Author: Kristina Keneally Publisher: The Guardian Date: 25 Aug 2015 Geoffrey Robinson was scathing of the Catholic church’s silence on child sexual abuse at the royal commission. It’s time for parishioners to shout from the rafters. In a
Pell Survivors Demand Laicization Title: ‘Why didn’t he help those little boys?’: how George Pell failed the children of Ballarat Author: Melissa Davey Publisher: The Guardian Date: 08MAY2020 The cardinal maintains he didn’t know about the Victorian town’s notorious paedophile priests, a claim the royal commission found ‘implausible’ “Why isn’t all of Australia talking about what
What George Pell Knew Title: What George Pell Knew Author: Melissa Davey Publisher: The Guardian Date: 09MAY2020 Presented by Laura Murphy-Oates & Melissa Davey Executive Producers: Miles Martignoni & Gabrielle Jackson After a five-year inquiry, the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse handed down its final report in late 2017. But due
Clear Pell Failed Children Title: The hidden findings on George Pell are now clear: he could have protected children from abuse. He didn’t Author: David Marr Publisher: The Guardian Date: 07MAY2020 For two and a half years the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s verdict on Pell has been like buried ordnance,