AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
House of horrors orphanage investigated as alleged victims reveal horrific tales of gang rape, beatings and sexual assault with a broom handle… before being forced to confess the brutal acts as their own sins
By Louise Cheer for Daily Mail Australia and Australian Associated Press
Victims at an Australian orphanage have told of the horrific abuse they suffered at the hands of the priests and nuns who ran the institution from claims of being raped by a broom handle to being forced to drink their own urine.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse in Rockhampton has also heard a woman was gang raped by employees and then had a child at 14 years of age.
While a retired nurse, who was sent to Neerkol orphanage near Rockhampton, said she was punched and slapped repeatedly, and a third victim claimed she was raped more than 100 times by parish priest Reginald Durham, who is now dead, from when she was 11.
The Rockhampton hearing in Queensland, which started on Tuesday, is expected to go until April 24
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A victim identified as AYL told the inquiry she had allegedly been routinely raped by a male employee from 1963, and in claims aired publicly for the first time said on one occasion the man and two other employees bound, gagged and raped her at the orphanage.
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