A former child migrant from Northern Ireland to
Australia has told a public inquiry he was transferred with no idea
where he was going and faced more sexual abuse when he arrived in a
Catholic home there.
Des McDaid, 70, said he was targeted by older boys, a lay teacher
and members of the Christian Brothers religious order which ran the
Clontarf institution near Perth in Western Australia.Aged eight, he was not told where he was going when he was transferred on board the ship the New Australian.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/24870005/children-treated-as-baby-convicts/