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Andrew Backhouse | 15th Feb 2017
A TOOWOOMBA man who suffered harrowing sexual abuse as a child is calling for an overhaul of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The man, who is giving evidence for the criminal trial of his alleged abuser, gave evidence to the commission in Toowoomba last year.
He said he was raped as a primary school student in a Victorian school, which taught him to avoid notorious sexual predators at a Christian Brothers college.
With the focus of the commission on the Catholic church, and senior figures being named and shamed, the Toowoomba man said not enough focus was being put on public school victims.
“There is a lot of desperation, frustration and animosity out there among many victims of childhood sexual abuse perpetrated within the state system with many victims feeling snubbed and left with no confidence in either the proceedings, or that they will benefit from any future redress scheme,” he said.
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