AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
By Megan Neil
May 21, 2015
A headmaster told an 11-year-old boy it was his fault he was being abused. A priest told another he was a bad child and would go to hell.
The child victims of the many clergy abusers in the Ballarat diocese were told they were the evil ones, an inquiry has heard.
And as recently as 2013, a Ballarat bishop is alleged to have told victims they were trying to destroy the Catholic church, but it would endure after they die.
Victim Andrew Collins told the abuse royal commission he was raped by his Seventh Day Adventist grade four teacher, who warned him that if he told anything the same thing would happen to his younger sister.
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