AUSTRALIA
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Mitch Mott, The Advertiser
THE victim of sexual abuse by a former Christian Brothers College teacher has told an Adelaide court that his childhood was destroyed — and that he and his family continued to suffer decades after the abuse had ended.
Stephen John Hamra, 61, abused the boy, who was not a student at the school, between 1977 and 1986.
His victim, who is now an adult, read an emotional victim impact statement to Judge Paul Rice in the District Court yesterday, outlining the difficulties that he has faced since the abuse.
“Before the abuse, I was a happy, fun-loving child,” he told the court.
“Afterwards I was angry, depressed and suicidal. I wonder where my life would have been without this abuse.”
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