AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
‘Father wants to cleanse you, 29’: Nun’s chilling words to a young boy, 5, who was given a NUMBER instead of a name when he was raped by a priest in ‘horror room’ for the first time
By AAP and John Carney for Daily Mail Australia
A victim of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a paedophile ring involving Catholic clergy in Ballarat has told how he was assigned a number and a locker number, instead of a name, and that nuns used to pull out his teeth with pliers.
Speaking at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Gordon Hill, 72, described how he was sexually and physically abused at Ballarat’s St Joseph’s Home in what he called ‘horror rooms’ and ‘dungeons’, and did not know his own surname until he was 10 years old.
ABC News reports that Mr Hill told the inquiry he was taken to the St Joseph’s Home as a three-year-old in the 1946, and was initially abused by a priest at age five, in a place called ‘the horror rooms’.
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