UNITED KINGDOM/AUSTRALIA
BBC News
A former child migrant has described the Australian orphanage he was sent to as “a concentration camp”.
A statement by John Francis Hanley was read to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
Mr Hanley was migrated to Australia aged six and placed in the Castledare Orphanage near Perth, run by Roman Catholic order the Christian Brothers.
The children were “beaten, abused and used for the Brothers’ perverted desires,” the inquiry heard.
Mr Hanley, who was born in 1947, described being sexually abused by two Christian Brothers, both in his bed and in their rooms.
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