JOE Kiernan was born into a real-life Stephen King horror story in 1960.
Stolen from his unmarried mother at birth, "because that's what they did then," he was sent to the infamous St Joseph's orphanage at Neerkol, near Rockhampton - an institution so evil its grounds include a memorial to the abused children who died there.
https://www.gympietimes.com.au/news/gympie-mans-child-abuse-horror-story-nears-final-c/3261437/
Stolen from his unmarried mother at birth, "because that's what they did then," he was sent to the infamous St Joseph's orphanage at Neerkol, near Rockhampton - an institution so evil its grounds include a memorial to the abused children who died there.
https://www.gympietimes.com.au/news/gympie-mans-child-abuse-horror-story-nears-final-c/3261437/