AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Royal Commission to hear boys as young as five were abused for decades at Christian Brothers homes
EMILY MOULTON LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER PERTHNOW APRIL 26, 2014
BOYS as young as five were raped, tortured and emotionally abused for decades at four Christian Brother’s homes in WA, a national inquiry into child sex abuse will hear on Monday.
And many of those children were sent to Australia from the UK and Malta after the war for what was supposed to be a better life.
Janette Dines, chief executive of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse, revealed the harrowing details ahead of the first WA public hearing which will start on Monday.
She said the commission would this week be looking specifically into the experiences of those former residents who were sent to Castledare, Clontarf, Bindoon and Tardun orphanages from the late 1940s up until the 1960s.
“Some of these men were sent to the residences as child migrants from the UK and Malta, while others were wards of the state,” she said.
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