Every night, as darkness fell around the boarding houses of St Virgil’s College in Hobart, Tony Rayner watched a handful of boys creep into the bedroom of Brother Patrick Timothy Farrell.
It was the 1950s and an eight-year-old Rayner was envious of the boys’ special treatment. Rumours drifted through the halls that Brother Farrell’s chosen few were rewarded with lollies.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/25/i-went-to-bed-screaming-child-abuse-survivor-speaks-as-church-faces-moment-of-reckoning
It was the 1950s and an eight-year-old Rayner was envious of the boys’ special treatment. Rumours drifted through the halls that Brother Farrell’s chosen few were rewarded with lollies.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/25/i-went-to-bed-screaming-child-abuse-survivor-speaks-as-church-faces-moment-of-reckoning