CHILD ABUSE WIDER THAN JUST THE PRIESTS, TEACHERS AND SCOUTMASTERS

Many paedophile priests, teachers and scoutmasters have the sexual maturity of adolescent same sex boys under their authority.

There is an ongoing issue of the historical child abuse of priests, teachers and scoutmasters with hundreds of older men and women talking of sex abuse they suffered as children.

But that is only the drop in the bucket. There has long been massive endemic abuse particularly of boys in church boarding schools at the hands of older boys.

In Catholic and Anglican boarding schools, nights in the dormitories were filled with the sounds of boys having sex with younger boys.

Prefects had their own servants chosen from the younger boys and called “fags”. They were to be at the service of their prefect master to clean their room and be available for masturbation, oral and anal sex.

Prefects had the right to punish their fags by having them remove their trousers and be beaten with a paddle. Teachers in boarding schools also had their fags who were to serve their master with sex.

Some teachers would claim to have sex with the lonely rejected boys so that they would not feel outcast among their peers.

We recall the four university graduates including Philby and Maclean in Britain who defected to Russia after spying against Britain. They were all gay and went through boarding school and university together as gay boys.

There used to be a saying that gay graduates of English boarding schools and universities went on to join the foreign office or become Anglican priests.

At the age of 12, I became a scout in Brisbane. Looking back now, I can see that scout camps were often orgies of sex. The favourite game in the tents after dark was “spin the bottle” which involved boys sitting in a circle. Not all boys took part.

A bottle was spun. When the bottle stopped, the two boys had the task of masturbating each other until all boys had been suitably masturbated. Young boys recently joined from the cubs had to be coaxed to take part.

I remember a scout camp that had two scout troops. Late at night, I will always recall the boys in the other troop all naked and joined into a conga line of penis to anus, penis to anus. 

They proceeded around the camp site. There was no sign of the scoutmaster. He must have known.

I recall another camp. The scoutmaster at the neighbouring troop had dug a trench and placed fire and stones within. It was a rainy night and he put a tent over the trench.

Then the boys of the troop all naked with the scoutmaster naked rushed into the tent beating their skin while water was poured on the stones. Then they rushed out and dived into the river. This went on for over an hour. Great fun.

At the same camp, I recall that we arrived late and it was raining. So we slept in a church hall.

Throughout the night there were the groans of pleasure of a dozen boys sleeping naked together and masturbating each other under the blankets.

This would certainly be the same in all institutions that looked after children. It would be natural to assume that priests, teachers, scout masters and welfare workers had the opportunity to join in the sexual games of the boys.

I left scouts a year later.