Cruel and excessive': Commission finds that nuns subjected children to abusive treatment including public floggings

Former residents at a Queensland orphanage would have urine soaked towels placed on their heads and be publicly flogged, a royal commission has found.

Last year, the child sex abuse royal commission investigated the 'cruel and excessive' treatment of 13 residents at St Joseph's Orphanage at Neerkol, near Rockhampton between 1940 and 1975.

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