AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
ANNETTE BLACKWELL AAP OCTOBER 22, 2013
IN PERTH on Monday they are burying Fred Crocker, a man who was at Boystown in the 1940s and suffered at the hands of the Christian Brothers who ran the centre where child migrants were sent.
Outside the office of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney, his friend John Hennessey is holding a quiet candlelight vigil.
Mr Hennessey, the former deputy mayor of Campbelltown, has been calling for an inquiry for 20 years into what happened to him and his classmates at the home in Bindoon, north of Perth.
He has a picture of the class of 1947 – 60 per cent of them were abused and six have committed suicide, Mr Hennessey says.
The picture shows sad, ragged boys sitting on the front steps of the now notorious building.
“It has been the judiciary who let a lot of us down,” Mr Hennessey said.
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