AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Jade Macmillan
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will begin two weeks of hearings in Western Australia on Monday.
The focus will be on four institutions run by the Christian Brothers: the Bindoon Farm School, St Mary’s Agricultural School, St Vincent’s Orphanage Clontarf and Castledare Junior Orphanage.
John Hennessey, who migrated to Australia as a child, is one of a number of men set to give evidence.
Mr Hennessey was 10 years old when he was taken from his orphanage in Bristol, England, in the mid-1940s and sent to Western Australia.
He says the commission will open old wounds.
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