AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC
BY TYSON SHINE
October 3, 2014
Two Tasmanian men who have appeared before the royal commission into child sexual abuse are urging others to come forward.
The men say they were victims of historic child sexual abuse at St Virgil’s school in Hobart in the 1950s.
They want to convince witnesses to come forward to the Federal Government’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Sexual Abuse.
Tasmania remains the only state or territory where the commission has not held an open session, but it plans to return and take formal evidence in an open hearing before the end of the year.
The ABC’s 7.30 Tasmania spoke with two victims who spoke to the commission in private sessions about paedophile Christian Brother Patrick Timothy Farrell, who taught at the college in the 1950s.
Brother Farrell was the head of the junior dormitory where the sexual assaults took place.
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