AUSTRALIA
The Australian
MICHAEL MCKENNA AND AMANDA GEARING From: The Australian May 11, 2013
A CLERGYMAN who allegedly raped boys at a north Queensland boarding school in the 1960s has claimed he was ordered to take female hormones by his headmaster, who encouraged the “romantic love” of children among staff.
Former Anglican brother Peter Gilbert – sentenced to seven years’ jail in 2006 for the rape and indecent assault of children in the 1980s in South Australia – has blamed St Barnabas headmaster the late Robert Waddington for turning him into a pedophile.
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