Witness Tells of Rape at Children's Home

The Sky News
November 20, 2013

http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=926394

A royal commission has heard a witness saw a young girl pinned down and gang raped by five older boys at the Anglican-run NSW orphanage at the centre of abuse allegations.

A former resident of the Lismore children's home has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse sitting in Sydney he witnessed the attack and was scared into silence.

The witness, known as CD, says he arrived at the North Coast Children's Home aged six, and was regularly whipped with a pony whip and cane by matron Jean O'Neill.

He says he once saw a group of about five older boys pin down one of the young girls who lived in the home, and they all raped her.

He was told not to say anything or they would come in the night and 'beat the crap' out of him.