AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By court reporter Peta Carlyon
Nuns used pliers to pull out the teeth of a child sex abuse victim at a Ballarat orphanage, and he was also locked in a dungeon known as the “horror room” and abused by a priest, an inquiry has heard.
Giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Gordon Hill – now in his 70s – said he was taken to the St Joseph’s Home as a three-year-old.
He told the inquiry he could still remember “all the little kids getting on the bus” in 1946.
Mr Hill said he was among a group at the home known as “the Drones”, children who had no-one and instead of going to school were put to work.
He said he was assigned a number and a locker number, instead of a name, and did not know his own surname until he was 10 years old.
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