Response to child sex abuse victims ‘too little too late’

AUSTRALIA
Lismore Echo

Andrew Backhouse | 27th Oct 2016

A FORMER Toowoomba schoolboy who says he was sexually assaulted at school has blasted an offer of counselling as “too little too late”.

David Patterson was a student at Toowoomba Anglican College and Preparatory School in 1969/70 when he was eight.

He said he was abused by a teacher and accused of being a liar for reporting it to the school and his parents.

He has since spent time in psychiatric wards, starting with Lowson House in 1978.

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