AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with audio]
By Alyssa Allen
Barry Wilson waited fifty years to tell his horrific story of child sexual abuse. It was years of abuse while in the care of the Christian Brothers at St Augustine’s Orphanage in Highton, Geelong that saw Barry’s life spiral out of control. Barry found out six weeks ago that he had liver cancer and only had a few days to live. Amazingly, he found the courage to tell his story of child sexual abuse to the Royal Commission last Tuesday.
Barry died on Sunday but his brother Peter Wilson could not be more proud of him.
Peter says members of the SANO Task Force (Victoria Police sex-crimes squad) took a recorded statement from Barry’s bedside in Kerang hospital in Northern Victoria.
“The detectives were very gentle with Barry, allowing him time to have breaks, so he could get his breath, that took probably an hour or a half or so, they were passionate.”
Peter, also a victim of child sexual abuse at the hands of the Christian Brothers, was asked by his brother stay in the room for his statement.
But Peter says he didn’t stay due to his own ongoing investigation with the Royal Commission.
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