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1 June 2015

The dirty secret of our criminal justice system

In my 1998 book Cleary Independent, I wrote of feeling "a shock wave of apprehension when a Christian Brother opened the door one night at a retreat and asked, 'Do you need to be tucked in?' The same bloke had earlier taken me to the presbytery for what he called a 'vocational talk'. 
When he inquired as to the level of my sexual knowledge and the operations of particular parts, I sought my leave." It was 1966 and I was 13 years of age when I escaped the Brother's clutches.

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