Exclusive: Pressure builds on government to apologise, as lawyer likens ‘trail of destruction’ to that wreaked by Catholic church
Grace Wilson, from the law firm Rightside Legal, which represented the victims of both Morris and Reynolds, said the cases “inspired a huge increase in the number of people standing up for themselves” and demanding compensation.
“Unchecked abusers in positions of authority leaving a trail of destruction across generations is not a problem that’s confined to the church. The state and other institutions are also reckoning with their own similar legacies,” she said. Prior to losing his seat, Grimley successfully passed a nonbinding motion in parliament urging the premier to publicly apologise to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse within government schools between the 1960s and 1990s.
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