Stop These Suicides

Federal and Victorian Government: Royal Commision into sex abuse in the Catholic Church and other NGOs Please sign the petition.... www.change.org 'FORGET religion. Forget God. This is about the safety of children.' Chrissie Foster (pictured with her husband Anthony) mother of Kate and Emma who both lost their lives as a result of repeated sexual assault at the hands of Catholic priest and convicted pedophile Kevin O'Donnell. O'Donnell sexually assaulted and raped children with the knowledge of the Catholic church from 1940 to 1995 when he was incarcerated. O'Donnell sexually assaulted hundreds, possibly thousands of children. He was never defrocked and buried with the honorific Pastor Emeritus, the equivalent of a Catholic OBE. There is not just 'a few bad apples'. There are thousands of them. Still abusing today. We need a Royal Commission into child sex abuse into the Catholic Church and other NGOs. And we need it now. We are bigger than the money. And so should the Catholic Church be. THE Catholic Church will be asked to surrender decades of confidential records on child sex abuse by its members during the Victorian inquiry into the handling of criminal behavior within religious and community groups. Victim groups yesterday called for the church to lay bare its archives on child sex abuse, the extent of which has shamed the church, led to hundreds and possibly thousands of victims and scores of suicides. The inquiry will be the first external examination of the <b>...</b>