AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By William Rollo and Marlina Whop
A woman has told an inquiry how she was sexually abused by a priest and forced to drink her own urine to stay hydrated at St Joseph’s Neerkol Orphanage at Rockhampton.
Diane Carpenter, who lived at Neerkol intermittently until she turned 17, was giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which is holding public hearings in the central Queensland city.
The inquiry is continuing to hear evidence from former residents of the orphanage, where hundreds of children were physically and sexually abused from the 1940s to 1970s.
Ms Carpenter, one of several Aboriginal children at the orphanage, said her sexual abuse at the hands of Father Michael Hayes, who ministered to the Indigenous children, was witnessed by another priest.
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