ABERDEEN (ENGLAND)
Evening Express
Dec. 5, 2019
A child abuse victim who was sent to Australia from Aberdeen believing he was an orphan has told of sexual abuse and “brutal beatings” at the hands of paedophile priests.
The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry witness, known as Harry, left care in Aberdeen and sailed to Australia in the 1950s, growing up in two orphanages where the boys were subjected to public floggings and years of sexual abuse.
Harry told the hearing, chaired by Lady Smith, about his experience in the care of Christian Brothers and how he was forced to perform sex acts by three of the men in the boys’ dormitory.
Speaking via video link from Australia, the 75-year-old witness said the sexual abuse at Clontarf in Western Australia lasted “four or five years, on and off”, with the threat of punishment if he did not go along with it.
Recalling the abusive Christian Brothers, he said they should have been “shot and hung”.
“If you in Scotland knew what happened in Australia, you would have started a Third World War,” he said.
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