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Dovetailing with that other story on Ireland, is this one where orphans in the UK were sent to an orphanage in Australia that was pretty horrible if folks have not heard about this one. This story though would be much more recent with survivors.

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Child migrants 'used for perverted desires' in orphanage

A former child migrant has described the Australian orphanage he was sent to as "a concentration camp".

A statement by John Francis Hanley was read to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).

Mr Hanley was migrated to Australia aged six and placed in the Castledare Orphanage near Perth, run by Roman Catholic order the Christian Brothers.

The children were "beaten, abused and used for the Brothers' perverted desires," the inquiry heard.

Mr Hanley, who was born in 1947, described being sexually abused by two Christian Brothers, both in his bed and in their rooms.

Continued: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39155279