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23 September 2018

What victims want most: justice

Sitting in a small room listening to a victim of sexual abuse finally tell their story is a harrowing experience. The emotions are raw and the tears flow easily, even if the events described happened 40 years ago. For men like Paul Klemick, abused as a young pupil by a Catholic teacher at St Paul’s High School, what happened is not historic. It remains an everyday reality and as painful as it was when they were innocent children.

https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/what-victims-want-most-justice