Witness VV told the Royal Commission today in Perth that he arrived at the Bindoon Farm as an orphan from the UK at age 9 in 1954 and left when he was 16. He had planted and harvested his own crop by the time he was 10. His education was virtually non-existent at the farm run by the Christian Brothers. He was sexually and physically abused by seven Brothers and a Benedictine priest. He left Bindoon to fend for himself in low paid work for the rest of his life. The farming land promised to all the boys by the Brothers never eventuated. He received a small payout in 2009 and was told there was no more money.
Orphans from the UK were subjected to child labour and horrific abuse by the Christian Brothers
