AUSTRALIA
The Morning Bulletin
Austin King | 17th Apr 2015
IT WAS hard to obtain justice when the priest of Neerkol Orphanage, Father John Anderson, was friends with the State Children’s Department inspector, a Mr Paterson.
That’s what former resident David Owen alleged in yesterday’s Royal Commission hearing into child sex abuse at Neerkol Orphanage.
But justice, and a promise made to his mother Catherine Pearl Owen, was finally served when David Owen told his story.
Catherine gave birth to David at Kidston in north Queensland. She was just 13 years of age.
The commission heard a police officer of the town, who David knew only as Constable 3322, raped his mother when she was 12.
It was Catherine’s job each week to attend the Kidston Police Station to collect Constable 3322’s dirty laundry and take it back to her grandmother’s wash house.
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