By Charlie Coë For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 15:55 GMT, 4 March 2019 | Updated: 19:46 GMT, 4 March 2019
A mother whose two daughters were raped by a catholic priest has said she is in 'awe of the judicial system' following Cardinal George Pell's child sex abuse conviction.
Chrissie Foster's primary school-aged daughters, Emma and Katie, were sexually assaulted in the 1980s by Father Kevin O'Donnell, and the family's ordeal was laid out in her book Hell on the Way to Heaven.
Speaking to ABC's Q&A panel on Monday night, Ms Foster spoke of how the process leading up to Pell's conviction was one that had to be fought 'inch by inch'.
A mother whose two daughters were raped by a catholic priest has said she is in 'awe of the judicial system' following Cardinal George Pell's child sex abuse conviction
'I was really, really happy,' she said when asked by host Tony Jones about her reaction when she found out about the ruling.
'I felt as though justice had been done. I felt as though the wheels of justice had turned.
'I did not think this would happen - it (the verdict) really filled me with confidence in the judicial system.'
Ms Foster and her husband Anthony met Pell, the then-Archbishop
