AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By William Rollo
A teenager who was raped at a Queensland orphanage and fell pregnant was told by nuns she had the devil inside her, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard.
The woman, who gave evidence under the name AYL, was raped when she was 14 by a worker at St Joseph’s Neerkol Orphanage, near Rockhampton, in 1965.
She was taken to the Good Shepherd’s home in Brisbane to give birth in front of nuns, who she was not permitted to talk to, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard.
“The baby was taken from me by one of the nuns who assisted in the delivery of the baby and was told I was ‘having the devil taken out of me’,” AYL said.
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