As a past Catholic, I have been deeply saddened by sex abuse that we read of in Massachusetts and other states of the United States at the hands of Catholic clergy.
It is now deeply distressing to view a TV expose on Boys Town in Queensland and to see grown men in tears at the sexual abuse they suffered at the hands of Catholic brothers.
Breaking the Silence - 60 Minutes - Ninemsn
sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/stories/8532780/breaking-the-silenceCached
14 Sep 2012 – But Boys Town, in Beaudesert Queensland, wasn't the Godly place we
all believed it to be. ... The QPS also encourage survivors of sexual assault to seek .... Any
sexual abuse that came up was reported to the police.
I once sat with a PNG man who was in tears as he told of the sexual abuse at De La Salle college in Port Moresby in the 1970s.
He told of Catholic brothers taking the boys swimming in the Laloki River. They would swim with the boys, moving among them, masturbating and penetrating them under water.
My friend said that he left the Catholic church the day after he graduated and became a Seventh Day Adventist.
It makes Catholics and others wonder if these men joined the clergy for service to God or paedophile sex.
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