Christian Brother William Stuart Houston Pleads Guilty to Indecent Assaults

By Shannon Deery
Herald Sun
May 5, 2016

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A YOUNG orphan boy who was publicly flogged after reporting sexual abuse at the hands of a Christian Brother suffered years of torture because he wasn’t believed.

The nine-year-old was abused almost immediately after having the misfortune of being assigned to the St Augustine’s Boys’ Home dormitory monitored by Br William Stuart Houston in 1963.

So fearful during his first attack, that saw Houston gag him and lie in bed with him, the young boy wet himself.

It earned him a series of strappings by Houston who wanted to punish the boy for wetting the bed.

When the child reported the sexual abuse to the Highton orphanage’s head brother, he was promised the matter would be looked into.