AUSTRALIA
Courier Mail
DANIELLE LE MESSURIER
PerthNow
THE torchlight was always the giveaway, the sure sign “they” were coming.
Then the footsteps would creak on the floorboards — softly, taking care not to wake the other boys — before stopping short at one of the beds.
As four-year-old David cried quietly in his bed at Swan Homes, an Anglican orphanage in Middle Swan, he wondered if they had come for him again.
But there was no solace if they took one of his friends, because he knew what horrors awaited them.
For the first time, The Sunday Times can reveal at least four children were abused at the orphanage.
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