AUSTRALIA
The Australian
Pia Akerman
From:The Australian
November 12, 2012
STEPHEN Woods would be among the first volunteers to give evidence at any royal commission into child abuse within the Catholic church.
As a Catholic school student in Ballarat in the 1970s, he suffered 3 1/2 years of abuse at the hands of Christian brothers, including Robert Charles Best, who has been convicted of numerous child-sex offences and now awaits the outcome of an appeal.
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