AT night, Jeff Curnow’s foster father, Jack, would walk into his bedroom in their tumbledown terraced home in Kilkenny, Adelaide, and take the nine year old boy upstairs. He sexually abused his foster son. Later, Jack turned to one of Jeff’s brothers instead.
The abuse went on for years, throughout the 1960s. “Most people would say ‘Get out of there’ but I had no sense of identity except for that home, so I had to stay,” Curnow says. The 63-year-old’s voice sounds hollow as he describes the damage done, including what his doctor suspects is a post-traumatic stress disorder suffered since he was a child.
http://www.clan.org.au/perch/resources/child-abuse-victims-find-growing-support-for-a-fairer-scheme-of-redress.pdf
The abuse went on for years, throughout the 1960s. “Most people would say ‘Get out of there’ but I had no sense of identity except for that home, so I had to stay,” Curnow says. The 63-year-old’s voice sounds hollow as he describes the damage done, including what his doctor suspects is a post-traumatic stress disorder suffered since he was a child.
http://www.clan.org.au/perch/resources/child-abuse-victims-find-growing-support-for-a-fairer-scheme-of-redress.pdf