here have been extraordinary revelations at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse but the testimony of survivor Joan Isaacs was particularly confronting… Joan is one of Australia’s heroes… one of the brilliant voices… shining through the gloom.
– Van Badham, The Guardian, Dec 26, 2013.

Joan Katherine Isaacs is a wife, mother and doting grandmother. Born in 1953 into a Catholic family, Joan was the middle child of migrant parents. At the age of fifteen Joan’s normal and happy life changed irreparably when the chaplain at her school groomed her for his own sexual gratification.