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27 January 2017

Child abuse inquiry hears priest regularly raped boy at St Joseph's orphanage Neerkol

At the Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, David Owen has given evidence he was sodomised by Father Anderson at St Joseph's Orphanage Neerkol regularly over several years in the 1930s and 1940s. Mr Owen also described the physical abuse he suffered at the hands of the nuns who ran the orphanage.