AUSTRALIA
ABC – PM
[with audio]
Michael Edwards reported this story on Monday, September 5, 2016
A group of men have described the sexual abuse they received at the hands of Marist Brothers while at a high school run by the order in the New South Wales city of Newcastle.
Several of the abusers have since been jailed but the survivors say the scars of the abuse have stayed with them throughout their lives.
One of the boys thought to have been abused, committed suicide at the age of 14 … the Royal Commission heard a local priest admit that he had described this as a ‘prank gone wrong’.
FEATURED:
Father William Burston – priest
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