AUSTRALIA
The Courier
By FIONA HENDERSON May 22, 2015
AFTER Paul Tatchell was raped by Brother Edward Dowlan at St Patrick’s College, he turned around and started belting the brother and wouldn’t stop.
“He (Dowlan) was crying on the floor. I was so angry for me and so angry for the other kids. I stormed out of the room,” Mr Tatchell told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
“I said ‘come with me you bastard’ and I went into the main area where all the other brothers who were dorm masters slept.
“I kept kicking at the door and eventually a couple of brothers got up to see what the racket was and then I just started swinging at them.”
Mr Tatchell left St Patrick’s College and went to Monivae College where he would attack any brothers abusing other students.
“I was taking my laundry down to the basement and the brother in charge of the laundry … was in there with another kid.
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