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5 October 2014

Raped by his supervisor then convicted of buggery

Peter Solway was repeatedly abused as a teenager and then forced to admit to what was then the crime of homosexuality. He tells his story as NSW politicians prepare to consider a bill that would annul such convictions and begin to address a lifetime of abuse and stigma.
In 1972 a 16-year-old resident of a Sydney boys’ home was charged with buggery after he tried to report to his carers that he had been raped by a supervisor at work.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/03/-sp-raped-by-his-supervisor-then-convicted-of-buggery-life-in-a-70s-boys-home