AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Thursday 21 May 2015
A headmaster told an 11-year-old boy it was his fault he was being abused, and a priest told another he was a bad child and would go to hell, the royal commission into institutional responses to child sex abuse has heard.
In 2013, a Ballarat bishop is alleged to have told victims they were trying to destroy the Catholic church, but it would endure after they die.
Victim Andrew Collins told the abuse royal commission he was raped by his Seventh Day Adventist grade four teacher, who warned him that if he said anything the same thing would happen to his younger sister.
In 1980, when he was 11, a parish priest named only as Father X abused him during preparations for his confirmation.
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