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Abuse claims at four WA Christian Brothers’ school to be investigated by Royal Commission
EMILY MOULTON LEGAL AFFAIRS REPORTER PERTHNOW APRIL 06, 2014
CLAIMS of widespread child sex abuse at four Christian Brothers-run WA boarding schools will be investigated as part of a nationwide inquiry.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse will hold its first WA public hearing at the end of this month.
It will hear from dozens of former boarders who spent time as young boys at Castledare Junior Orphanage in Wilson, St Vincent’s Orphanage in Clontarf, St Mary’s Agricultural School in Tardun, and Bindoon Farm School.
The inquiry will be one of the biggest investigations into claims of child sex abuse ever held in WA, with not only the Catholic Church under the spotlight but also successive WA governments.
It is understood the victims claim they were tortured, raped and degraded by Catholic priests while they were living at the residences run by the Christian Brothers.
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