AUSTRALIA
The Daily Telegraph
Tommy Campion
The Daily Telegraph
November 15, 2012
WHEN I saw Prime Minister Julia Gillard on TV announcing there would be a royal commission into child abuse in churches and other institutions I was overwhelmed.
I wept uncontrollably. I became breathless. I walked the floor struggling to breathe, trying to comprehend what I had heard.
It was later I realised it was about time the truth was revealed, perhaps it was time for hope and happiness, not sadness.
I lived in the Church of England North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore from 1949 to 1964. Most of those years were full of hatred, bloody brutal floggings, bashings, starvation and sexual abuse. It was a home of hell and fury.
In the time I was there more than 200 innocent children were verbally, physically and sexually assaulted. Fear ruled our lives
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