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Queensland women have recalled gut-wrenching memories of abuse at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today.

Mary Adams sobbed through her statement, saying she remembered yelling “You are committing a mortal sin” at a priest who abused her as a child.

Another woman known only as AYB said she was repeatedly raped as a child by a Catholic priest, who then made her confess to her “sin”.

The 67-year-old woman was 11 when Father Reginald Durham, her parish priest, began sexually abusing her at her Rockhampton home, the commision heard.

AYB said Fr Durham abused her more than 100 times over the following years, including at his presbytery at the Neerkol orphanage when she worked there as a teacher.