AUSTRALIA
In My Community
05/Dec/2012
By Caroline Frank, Advocate
A FORMER abuse victim says he would like to testify before the Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse on behalf of the “Bindoon boys” and other sufferers.
Former Bindoon resident and author Robert Taylor (73) said he would “gladly” testify about his experiences detailed in his book Who Am I?
“I welcome the Gillard Government’s Royal Commission with open arms but it should have been invested at the time the cruelty was happening,” Mr Taylor said.
The now Atherton Tablelands resident said there was slave labour and sexual abuse by the priests and Christian Brothers through the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
“I and 12 other boys arrived at Boys’ Town, Bindoon, on June 1, 1950 and I remained there for six-and-a-half years,” he said.
“Boys’ Town was the cruellest place on earth and I will stand as a witness should I be asked for all the Bindoon boys I knew that suffered at the hands of the Christian Brothers.”
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