AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By William Rollo
A priest lured a 12-year-old girl into his room with food before sexually assaulting her, 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 St Joseph’s Neerkol Orphanage in Rockhampton.
A witness known as AYA said she was sexually assaulted by one of the priests.
“On my 12th birthday I was sexually abused by Father Reg Durham at Neerkol,” she said.
“Durham would often ask the girls to visit him.
“He would entice you to his room with a display of food that we didn’t have such as chicken.”
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