AUSTRALIA
WA Today
March 26, 2013
Patrick Caruana
AAP
A man who was abused for years at a Catholic orphanage has urged a Victorian parliamentary inquiry to turn the church “upside down” to take the rot out.
Gordon Hill was physically, mentally and sexually abused at the hands of nuns and priests at a Ballarat orphanage more than 50 years ago.
He was repeatedly assaulted and forced to do manual labour, he told the inquiry into sexual abuse within religious organisations.
When inquiry chair Georgie Crozier asked what he now wanted from the church, Mr Hill was unequivocal.
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