AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
BY JOANNE MCCARTHY
28 Jul, 2012
LOU Pirona is a father who must live with the awful sadness of his son’s last words.
“When I was young I was frightened. When I went to school I was bullied and abused by people who should have been nurturing and guiding me.”
The body of John Pirona, 45, of Belmont North, was found in a car at Tomago yesterday morning, five days after leaving the letter his family had always feared, which ended with the words “Too much pain”.
A victim of a notorious Hunter paedophile priest in 1979 when he was 12, John Pirona was sexually assaulted at least one year after both the school principal, Father Tom Brennan, and the late Maitland-Newcastle bishop Leo Clarke were told the priest was a sex offender.
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