AUSTRALIA
SBS
John Hennessey, who was brutalised at the notorious Bindoon orphanage, says the Royal Commission could see his pain lasted a lifetime.
A survivor of the notorious Christian Brothers-run Bindoon orphanage in Western Australia says redress isn’t so much about money, it’s about knowing the truth has finally come out.
John Hennessey was taken away from his mother at birth and in 1947 sent to Australia at the tender age of 11.
She’d been banished from Ireland to England because she was pregnant out of wedlock – and was told he had died.
It wasn’t until he was aged 62 that they were reunited, thanks to the Child Migrants Trust.
Over those lost years, he repeatedly begged the same Christians who had abused him to help him find his mother, but they refused.
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