UNITED KINGDOM
TVNZ
A child sex abuse survivor has told a British inquiry “it was a feast of kids at an orphanage” for Christian Brothers pedophiles in Western Australia in the 1950s.
The 72-year-old told the child sex abuse inquiry in London overnight he had been in orphanages in the UK since he was a baby before being shipped to WA in 1953 at the age of eight as a child migrant.
The witness, now living in Perth and only referred to as A4 to protect his identity, said he was sent to the boys’ home at Castledare where he was sexually abused by Brother Lawrence Murphy.
He said Murphy woke him up one night in the dormitory to say he must go to the toilet, but instead led him to his bedroom.
Holding back tears he told the inquiry Murphy had told him to take off his pyjamas.
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