NEW ZEALAND
Radio New Zealand
December 6, 2020
By Andrew McRae
A man has presented a harrowing testimony of being terrified as a boy for every day of school through two years, at the Abuse in Care inquiry.
Known only as John, the 52 year said he was sexually abused 40 years ago at the Marist-run Xavier Intermediate School in Christchurch, between 1980 and 1982, by principal Brother Giles.
John describes Giles as a very loud, big man who used fear and intimidation to get what he wanted.
John was at the school for only a short time before Brother Giles took an interest in him.
He said it started with grooming.
”When he was grooming me it was about two or three times a week, but once the sexual abuse started it would be sometimes a couple of times a day. Other times it would be two or three days break. I never knew whether it was going to be today, tomorrow or the next day.”
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