Commission hears how children’s reports of cruelty by priests and nuns were covered up for decades.
Another city, another institution and more harrowing tales of
ruined lives. And, as the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse held a
hearing in Queensland this week, another scandalous story of cruelty,
cover-up and neglect.
A dozen former residents of St Joseph's Neerkol Orphanage, in
Rockhampton, told of the "vicious and sadistic" abuse meted out by
priests and nuns at the Catholic Church home between 1940 and 1975.
