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| Subject: Michael Hawes tells UK inquiry of 'Creeping Jesus' abuse Dhurringile Presbyterian farm school for migrant boys Fri Mar 03, 2017 10:42 pm | |
| A Presbyterian supervisor at a Victorian farm school was known as "Creeping Jesus" because of the way he crept up on boys at night to sexually abuse them in the 1950s, a British inquiry has heard.
A former child migrant gave evidence to the child sex abuse inquiry sitting in London on Thursday, detailing the abuse he suffered after being shipped from the UK where he had been in foster care.
Michael Hawes, now aged 70 and living in Queensland, arrived in Australia in 1954 at the age of seven and was sent to the Presbyterian church's farm school at Dhurringile in Victoria.
He said he was constantly bullied by the older boys, was once tied up in barbed wire and pelted with rocks and one boy nearly succeeded in cutting off his finger with a pocket knife.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/34553554/michael-hawes-tells-uk-inquiry-of-creeping-jesus-abuse-dhurringile-presbyterian-farm-school-for-migrant-boys/#page1 |
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