AUSTRALIA
SBS
AAP
More than four decades after the childhood sexual abuse his mind had repressed, a car crash brought the memories flooding back.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on Tuesday told a royal commission that as an Adelaide teenager in the late 1960s he was abused by five men, each with links to the Anglican church.
But he had no recollection of the abuse until 2010, after an accident when his car rolled.
“I started having flashbacks about the car accident and then I started to have flashbacks about the sexual abuse,” the man told a public hearing in Hobart.
“These flashbacks escalated over the next month and began occurring every day.”
It made the man remember the abuse he suffered after joining the Church of England Boys’ Society at St Richard’s in the Adelaide suburb of Lockleys.
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