AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
IAN KIRKWOOD
6 Sep 2016
A BROTHER of a boy who hung himself at the age of 13 has given a bleak account of physical and sexual abuse at Marist Brothers Hamilton in the 1970s.
CQT said he started at Sacred Heart Primary School in 1962 and went to Marist Brothers, Hamilton, from 1969.
He had been an altar boy from the age of 10 in 1967.
He said some of the Sisters at the Sacred Heart were commonly referred to as the sisters without mercy, who would hit with their fists, with rulers and with canes.
“I would describe several of the brothers and lay teachers at the school as vicious and sadistic thugs,” he said.
He described one teacher, Brother Cassian, kicking a stray cat so hard that it died.
“I saw him hold kids up, punch them and let them drop to the floor,” CQT said.
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