IT WAS hard to obtain justice when the priest of Neerkol Orphanage,
Father John Anderson, was friends with the State Children's Department
inspector, a Mr Paterson. That's what former resident David Owen alleged in yesterday's Royal
Commission hearing into child sex abuse at Neerkol Orphanage.
But justice, and a promise made to his mother Catherine Pearl Owen, was finally served when David Owen told his story. Catherine gave birth to David at Kidston in north Queensland. She was just 13 years of age.