AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
By Daniel Peters For Daily Mail Australia
A former Wallaby star has revealed he was sexually abused by a Catholic priest at an elite Sydney boys’ school when he was just 11 years old.
Tony Daly, now 51, represented Australia in 41 test matches as a stocky and gutsy prop – but the horrors of his past tormented him through life after rugby union.
In two interviews with the Royal Commission, Daly detailed the two years of sexual abuse inflicted by a Marist brother while he was a young boy at St Joseph’s College.
Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Daly said he felt ‘shame for years’ after enduring ‘fondling’ by the priest.
‘This bastard robbed me of my innocence and normal life,’ he told the publication.
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