When Broken Rites launched its national telephone
hotline in September 1993, our first callers included former inmates of a
Catholic orphanage (St Joseph's Home, at Neerkol, near Rockhampton, Queensland). Some of these callers said they were sexually assaulted by Father Reg Durham,
who was the "chaplain" at this orphanage from 1965 to 1997.
We referred these callers to an appropriate unit of the Queensland Police, and this resulted in Father Reg Durham being jailed in 1999 for child sex crimes. In 2015, Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission is holding a public hearing in Rockhampton into child-abuse at this orphanage.
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We referred these callers to an appropriate unit of the Queensland Police, and this resulted in Father Reg Durham being jailed in 1999 for child sex crimes. In 2015, Australia's national child-abuse Royal Commission is holding a public hearing in Rockhampton into child-abuse at this orphanage.
http://www.brokenrites.org.au/drupal/node/34