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Child sex abuse inquiry: Former Neerkol resident ‘received a bullet in the mail’ after reporting child abuse at orphanage
By William Rollo and Marlina Whop
A man who reported sexual abuse at St Joseph’s Neerkol Orphanage received death threats after talking to police, including a bullet in his mailbox, the royal commission into child abuse hears.
A man who reported sexual abuse at St Joseph’s Neerkol Orphanage received death threats after talking to police, including a bullet in his mailbox, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
The commission, entering its third day of public hearings, is taking evidence from former residents of the orphanage in Rockhampton.
David Owen, 76, said he became a resident of the orphanage at five months of age.
He told the commission he was an altar boy for Father John Anderson, who sodomised him for years.
“One occasion I was held over the side of a bridge by Father Anderson and told he would drop me into the fires of hell if I didn’t do what he required me to do,” Mr Owen said.
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