AUSTRALIA
The Daily Telegraph
DANIELLE GUSMAROLI, The Daily Telegraph
March 20, 2017
FORMER Wallabies prop Tony Daly has revealed his relentless mission to become a World Cup-winning Aussie rugby star was fuelled by pent-up rage after he was sexually abused as a young boy by a Marist brother at one of Sydney’s most prestigious schools.
The 41-cap Australian front-rower lifted the lid on his abuse as an 11-year-old by a Catholic brother at the elite rugby nursery, St Joseph’s College, after detailing what happened at two assessment interviews with the Royal Commission.
The abuse revelations come as Daly avoided jail yesterday for petty thefts and driving offences — part of a rampage of drug and booze-fuelled robberies sparked by the demons of shame unleashed after his sporting career.
His spiral of self-loathing also included two failed marriages and the FBI frogmarching him off a plane in Los Angeles, after he allegedly stole a wallet and sunglasses from a passenger in 2009.
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