Royal Commission thanked for giving survivors 'justice, strength and hope'

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated December 11 2017 - 2:54pm, first published April 1 2017 - 6:00am
Thank you: Former Hunter Catholic school principal Steve Murray, 63, was groomed, drugged and raped by Marist Brother Vales between 1966 and 1969 at St Joseph's, Hunters Hill. He thanked the royal commission for giving survivors justice, strength and hope. Picture: Simone De Peak.
Thank you: Former Hunter Catholic school principal Steve Murray, 63, was groomed, drugged and raped by Marist Brother Vales between 1966 and 1969 at St Joseph's, Hunters Hill. He thanked the royal commission for giving survivors justice, strength and hope. Picture: Simone De Peak.

FOR three decades Hunter Catholic school principal Steve Murray buried memories of being sexually assaulted by a Marist Brother, for more than a decade he tried to hold the Catholic Church to account, and by 2012 “I had given up because they were too hard to fight”.

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