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A Victorian man who grew up in church-run orphanages says he was beaten and locked in a dark basement by priests and nuns, but never saw any evidence of sexual abuse.
Alan “Charlie” Walker also alleges a man he grew up with had made false claims of sexual abuse to win compensation.
Mr Walker was abandoned at a babies’ home in Broadmeadows in Melbourne’s north when he was nine days old and lived in several Catholic orphanages in Victoria until the age of 15.
Speaking of mistreatment, such as being caned and locked in a basement for bad behaviour, Mr Walker told the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into sex abuse there had been good and bad in his upbringing.
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