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Gemma Hickey, a survivor of abuse at the hands of a Roman-Catholic priest when they were a child who founded a non-profit that supports survivors harmed within religious institutions, poses on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador on July 29, 2019.
Even after decades of abuse-related scandals within Canada, the Church refuses to acknowledge the full scale of abuse in parishes, schools and other institutions across the country. Instead, survivors have been left to try to force change on their own.