AUSTRALIA
Northern Star
Rodney Stevens 6th Jul 2013
A VICTIM of physical and sexual abuse at Lismore’s Church of England North Coast Children’s Home unloaded decades of emotional distress this week, telling his stories to the Royal Commission into child abuse.
Richard “Tommy” Campion said he lived at the Keen St home from 1948 to 1963, and endured a decade of physical and sexual abuse. His back still bares the scars from the savage beatings he, and about 200 others, suffered.
“It was an abusive home where children endured sexual abuse and regular floggings and beatings. Children were flogged till they were bleeding and others were locked in cupboards and had their heads pushed down toilets,” he said.
Mr Campion said after carrying the emotional burden for more than 50 years, after talking to the “brilliant” members of the Royal Commission at a Brisbane Hotel on Wednesday he felt “wonderfully relieved.”
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