AUSTRALIA
Sky News
One of the victims of former priest David Edwin Rapson once tried to flee his Victorian school fearing further abuse, and says he hasn’t stopped running in the two decades since.
Rapson, 60, was found guilty of five charges of rape and eight counts of indecent assault against eight boys at Salesian College’s Lysterfield and Rupertswood campuses between the 1970s and 1990.
One of his victims, abused as a teenager at Rupertswood, said his life had been riddled by drug abuse, mental health issues and family breakdowns.
In a victim impact statement read to the Victorian County Court on Wednesday, the man said he has been haunted by the abuse every single day since it happened.
“It’s like I’m always running from him,” he said.
“My life would have been so, so different if not for the abuse.”
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