From England-
STEVE Smith calls it an ambush – the day he
walked into a Newcastle courtroom to give evidence against an Anglican
priest only to be blindsided by a judge’s attack against him, in a trial
where three key players had undisclosed associations with the church.
Seventeen
years after the case against the priest collapsed, Mr Smith has written
to Attorney General Mark Speakman seeking an apology from the State of
NSW.
“I
expected to get beaten up by the defence but I had a judge attacking my
credibility in court. He was basically calling me a liar in court, that
I was fabricating it. I remember thinking, someone say something,” Mr
Smith said.
“I spent years in the
wilderness, despairing about what happened. I spent years thinking, I
should have just shut my mouth. So the state should apologise. I just
want some acknowledgement it was wrong. I want the state to take
responsibility for that because it was devastating. It was
soul-destroying. It’s unfinished business for me.”More here-
https://www.theherald.com.au/story/5535623/the-ambush-and-the-apology-abuse-survivor-takes-on-the-state/
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