UNITED KINGDOM/AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
AAP
Two men who were shipped from Britain to Western Australia as children in the 1950s have told an inquiry in London of their abuse by Christian Brothers paedophiles.
One witness, now 72 and living in Perth and referred to as A4 to protect his identity, told the UK’s child sex abuse inquiry he had been in orphanages in Britain since he was a baby before being shipped to WA in 1953 at the age of eight as a child migrant.
He said he was sent to the boys’ home at Castledare where he was sexually abused by Brother Lawrence Murphy.
The national child abuse inquiry is hearing testimony from people who were shipped as children to Australia. Some children sent to former colonies between the 1920s and 1970s faced servitude, hard labour and abuse
He said Murphy woke him up one night in the dormitory to say he must go to the toilet, but instead led him to his bedroom.
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