AUSTRALIA
ABC News
A former student at Newcastle’s Catholic St Pius high school will this week tell the Royal Commission about how sexual abuse by a teaching priest ruined his life.
The Royal Commission into child sexual abuse is holding four days of private hearings in Newcastle, with 32 people to give evidence about their experiences of abuse in the Hunter region.
The anonymous evidence could lead to further public hearings.
Former St Pius student “Steven” is due to give evidence tomorrow and said the assaults occured in the 1960s in the bedroom of a priest who lived at the school.
“(He) got me after hours to end up in his bedroom, where he sexually assaulted me,” he said.
“This happened on many occasions.
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