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EXCLUSIVE, Rebecca Parish
The Sunday Telegraph
MORE than 30 years ago, John Comerford returned to the steps of De La Salle College with a loaded shotgun.
A tormented 18-year-old, he was going to kill the man who stole his life when he was just 11.
But Mr Comerford never got the opportunity to come face-to-face with Brother Anselm Hallam as an adult because as he sat on the steps of the southwestern Sydney school, he was told the teacher was dead.
He would spend the next two decades of his life harbouring the secret of his childhood rape, not telling a soul about the day Anselm caught him alone in the school’s old church.
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