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Abuse victim David Owen to relive pain of abuse at Neerkol orphanage at Royal Commission
DETAILS divulged to the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse about horrific abuse that took place in a Queensland orphanage have been deemed “too lurid” to be made public, but one man is keen for his shocking story to be heard.
The Commission, sitting in Rockhampton from today, has begun to hear from men and women who attended the Neerkol Orphanage outside the city between 1940 and 1975.
The institution has previously been exposed as a place where physical, sexual and psychological abuse was rife during the Forde Inquiry in 1998 and 1999.
David Owen, 76, was one of the victims of abuse to come forward at that inquiry and will now be one of 18 witnesses to front the Commission opening up about his shocking abuse, all because he wants people to care.
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