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29 February 2016

Child sex abuse inquiry: Victim had teeth pulled out by nuns with pliers, royal commission hears

Nuns used pliers to pull out the teeth of a child sex abuse victim at a Ballarat orphanage, and he was also locked in a dungeon known as the "horror room" and abused by a priest, an inquiry hears.
Giving evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Gordon Hill - now in his 70s - said he was taken to the St Joseph's Home as a three-year-old.

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2015-05-20/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-victim-had-teeth-pulled-out-by-nuns-with-pliers-royal-commission-hears/1449538