It's the rollcall of names that decades on still haunts former St Alipius students: Ridsdale, Best, Dowlan, Fitzgerald, Farrell. The school chaplain, principal and the entire teaching staff. Five confirmed pedophiles, all at the Christian Brothers junior school in Ballarat East in the 1970s.
A St Alipius class photo from the time bears testament to the devastating toll their abuse wrought. "Now a third of those are gone, they're dead," Ballarat Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) manager Shireen Gunn said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-3081052/Ballarat-abuse-horror-doesnt-away.html
A St Alipius class photo from the time bears testament to the devastating toll their abuse wrought. "Now a third of those are gone, they're dead," Ballarat Centre Against Sexual Assault (CASA) manager Shireen Gunn said.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/aap/article-3081052/Ballarat-abuse-horror-doesnt-away.html