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21 December 2016

Child abuse: Documenting Australia's shame

In Australia, a boy of 10 is raped by an Anglican clergyman, who cuts his victim with a small knife and smears blood over his back in a twisted ritual to symbolise the suffering of Christ.
This happened in the 1960s in Cessnock, a former mining town in the New South Wales Hunter Valley, but only now has this and other decades-old stories of sexual violence and degradation been heard, catalogued and, crucially for many victims, believed.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-38301488?post_id=10204672433356106_10208374139456445#_=_