AUSTRALIA
ABC – PM
TONY EASTLEY: The Federal Government’s Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse may have been sparked by incidents within the Catholic Church but it’s not the only organisation that will be subject to scrutiny.
Many people who were abused in foster care or at boys’ and girls’ homes also hope the Royal Commission will bring some recognition of what they went through.
The Care Leavers Australia Network hopes that compensation will be considered.
A warning: Timothy McDonald’s report contains material that some listeners might find distressing.
TIMOTHY MCDONALD: Jeffrey Myers says he suffered horrific abuse as a child at the Royalston Boys Home in Glebe in inner Sydney.
He’s in his 70s now and the abuse happened decades ago, but he still has a hard time talking about it.
JEFFREY MYERS: Well I will go as far as saying that there was penetration by objects in my body. That’s about as far as I’ll go mate, as far as the torture side of it was concerned. And I did black out.
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