AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By David Marchese
A child abuse survivor has told a royal commission he punched a Marist Brother “hard in the head” after being subjected to horrific abuse at his Catholic high school.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse hearing into the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic diocese has resumed for its second week.
The hearing is also probing the response of the Marist Brothers to allegations of child sexual abuse made against several Brothers over decades.
Abuse survivor CNQ described traumatic and sustained abuse at the hands of several Brothers while he attended a Marist Brothers high school in the Newcastle suburb of Hamilton in the early 1970s.
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