Children abused while living in the care of two well-known Catholic orders are having their stories recorded by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Child Sexual Abuse and the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry this month.
The Royal Commission is holding public hearings in Rockhampton this week to hear accounts of abuse inflicted on children by the Sisters of Mercy at the St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol.
One survivor, Mary Adams, told ABC Radio that in addition to the sexual abuse of children by some priests at the Orphanage, the nuns regularly held public floggings.
