AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
A man has detailed six years of abuse at the hands of three Marist Brothers while he was a child in northern Queensland, saying they had more control over him than his parents.
The man known only as DK has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was abused by the Marist Brothers as a boarder at Saint Augustine’s College in Cairns, between 1976 and 1981.
DK said when he was 11, a man known as Brother Leonidas watched him showering daily.
He said the brother removed curtains from the showers so the boys had no privacy.
DK said when he turned 12 in 1976, he injured his foot and went to the after-hours infirmary.
A Marist Brother, who has not been named, sexually abused the victim, leaving him “completely and utterly confused”.
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