NEW ZEALAND
Radio New Zealand
September 28, 2020
By Andrew McRae
Warning: This story discusses graphic details of sexual abuse, physical abuse and suicide.
A man with an intellectual disability who went into care as a young child and was physically and sexually abused has described his childhood as a nightmare.
Prison jail cells bars incarceration genericFile photo. Photo: Unsplash / Matthew Ansley
Kerry Johnson, which is a pseudonym, is now 48-years-old.
He first spent about one year, 1980, in the Catholic-run St John of God, Marylands School in Christchurch before moving into state-run institutions.
On Monday, he gave evidence to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry sitting in Auckland.
Kerry Johnson was only 7 when he was taken into care because, he says, he was an out of control kid.
He was put into the care of the brothers at St John of God, where three of them sexually abused him and others a number of times.
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