NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A 70-year-old former child migrant from a Catholic-run home in Londonderry has said he was sexually abused after being shipped to Australia.
Des McDaid, who has waived his right to anonymity, was giving evidence to the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
He had travelled from St Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca in Derry to the Clontarf orphanage in Perth, when he was eight.
He said there was a lot of brutality at the Clontarf home and a number of brothers sexually abused the boys.
He said he was sexually abused by older boys, members of the Christian Brothers religious order and a lay teacher.
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