Dorm Master Removed Shower Curtains So He Could Watch Boys Washing, Victim of Sex Abuse at 11 Tells Royal Commission

By Janet Fife-Yeomans
The Telegraph
December 18, 2013

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A VICTIM of sexual abuse as a child at a Marist Brothers college has slammed the "angry, cruel men" who not only hurt him as a child but abused him again when he went through the Catholic Church's Towards Healing process.

"I don't call it Towards Healing. I call it Towards Hurting," the man, 49, has told the royal commission into institutionalised responses to child sex abuse today.

"The mediation ... made me feel quite dirty and filthy.

"From 1976 to 1981 I was sexually abused; there was horrendous physical abuse by angry, cruel men who ruled my life and had more control over me than my parents.

"I had put my trust back in to them for Towards Healing and by three of clock that afternoon (on the day of mediation) I just felt the same angry, cruel men had done the same thing to me 35 years later."

The man, who has asked not to be identified, was sexually abused from the age of 11 at St Augustine's College in Cairns by three different brothers. His dorm master removed the shower curtains so he could watch the boys showering.