AUSTRALIA
Chinchilla News
Sherele Moody | 27th Aug 2016
ALMOST 50 years ago, a tall, fun loving and incredibly charismatic Catholic priest strolled into a Brisbane schoolroom where he began systematically destroying the heart, body and soul of a 14-year-old girl.
That girl was Joan Isaacs and, despite 49 years having passed, the memory of the day she met the man who would sexually assault her over and over again is crystal clear.
“He came into our class to give religious instruction,” Ms Isaacs says of Francis Edward Derriman.
She pauses for a moment, her soft voice trembling slightly while her hands trace mindless patterns on the table in her spotless dining room.
“We’d had pretty boring religious instruction from the chaplains before that,” Joan recalls.
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