Former Pupil at Sydney Boys" Home Reveals "Had His Penis Cut off by a Teacher Who Who Didn't like Students with Foreskins"

By Martha Azzi
Daily Mail
December 12, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3356925/Royal-commission-hears-man-penis-cut-Sydney-boys-home.html

At the age of 13, Gordon Myers allegedly woke up to find 'blood everywhere' after his teacher performed a botched circumcision because he 'didn't like little boys with foreskins.'

Mr Myer's, 50, attended Daruk Training School in Windsor, a Sydney boys' home in 1978, for five years during which he claims he was raped and bashed by some staff, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard.

A member of the school performed the illegal circumcision after claiming to have received permission, reported the Mercury.

A member at Daruk Training School in Windsor allegedly hated little boys with foreskins and performed botched circumcisions on the students

Gordon Myers, now 50, was thanked for sharing his story with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse

'He knocked me out with a needle and I woke up in the middle of it and there was (a second staff member there as well), I screamed in pain.

'Because I was so tiny, he probably thought, stupidly, 'don't give him as much anaesthetic to put him under',' said Mr Myers.

Realising the surgery did not go to plan, Mr Myers was sent to Windsor where a surgeon reattached his penis.

Unable to find any records of the incident Mr Myers believes the hospital covered up the incident.

The deformity has effected Mr Myers life as he is unable to father children or have sex - left with a 'child-like sized' penis and scrotum.

Hospital documents posted on an online support page for Mr Myers concluded he had been left with 'testicular microlithiasis' - a debilitating condition in which calcium builds up in the testicles.

The gruesome details of Mr Myers' extensive history of alleged child abuse are found in his official witness statement, which was sent to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard Gordon Myers, 50, had his penis cut off aged 13 by a staff member

The revelations of this shocking alleged abuse come as victims criticise Cardinal George Pell for postponing his royal commission appearance due to ill-health.

Cardinal Pell was to appear before the child abuse royal commission in Melbourne next week but will now front a Ballarat sitting in February.

Stephen Woods was among victims of pedophile priests outraged by Cardinal Pell's attempt to give his evidence via videolink from Rome next week, due to a worsened heart condition.

'Being held in February, that's fine, but of course the victims are still waiting,' Mr Woods told reporters.

'We've been waiting years. Yet again the victims have to pay the price of an organisation that just does not want to be held accountable.

Cardinal George Pell is being criticised for postponing his royal commission appearance due to ill-health

The one upside for Ballarat victims is Cardinal Pell now has to give his evidence in the Victorian regional city, his health permitting, as they had wanted all along.

'It will be good to see that Ballarat will finally get some of the healing that it needs,' Mr Woods said.

'Ballarat has been the centre of incredible amounts of crimes and sex crimes against children and so Ballarat needs to be the place where Pell and the church really has its own Eureka Stockade.'

London-based David Ridsdale, a nephew and victim of Australia's worst pedophile priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale, said the buck stopped with Cardinal Pell as Australia's most senior Catholic figure.

'He is the man who needs to come and answer on behalf of the church, because he has made it clear the church the corporation is different to the church made up of the people that are in the parishes.

'But for some reason it's the parishes who are being forced to bear all the responsibility for costs and for the behaviours of priests.'

Cardinal Pell was to appear before the child abuse royal commission in Melbourne next week but it has now been postponed until February

Cardinal Pell has consistently said he intended to do everything possible to assist the royal commission, his office said in a statement.

It said he had to heed medical advice after a specialist cardiologist advised it was not safe for him to undertake long-haul flights in his current condition.

Cardinal Pell's commission evidence will cover the church's handling of child sex abuse in both the Melbourne archdiocese and the Ballarat diocese, which covers the western third of Victoria.

The former Melbourne and Sydney archbishop and Ballarat priest has already appeared twice before the royal commission about other issues, including once via videolink from Rome.