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Elderly victim reveals horrific details of child abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers.
A 75-year-old man with leukaemia, heart disease and diabetes is seeking aggravated damages against the Christian Brothers for the child abuse he experienced at the Clontarf and Castledare institutions in Perth’s southeastern suburbs.
John Thomas Lawrence was a nine-year-old child migrant from the UK when he arrived at Castledare. He was raped repeatedly by Brother Lawrence Murphy at Castledare, then later at Clontarf.“When I first saw him come to Clontarf, my heart fell,” Mr Lawrence told the court in January 2020.
“I thought ‘oh God, it’s going to be on again’.”
Brother Murphy would enter the dormitories at night and choose boys to take back to his room. According to Lawrence, the boys would hide under their blankets and if they refused or begged him to stop, Murphy would slap them.
By the time John left school at 16-years-old, he was completely illiterate.
“In the classroom, you’ve got Murphy trying to teach you and that’s the same man that raped me the other night. I used to look out the window… I didn’t want to look at him.”
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