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Tag Archives: Bindoon
Algate Boys’ Home (Or: Do As You’re Told)
While the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse’s next hearings (beginning 28th January) will cover two Queensland and two NSW Boys’ Home, operated by the Salvation Army, there are many others not being covered. One of … Continue reading
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Tagged Algate House Boys’ Home, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bindoon, Care Leavers of Australia Network (CLAN), Catholic Church, child migrants, Christian Brothers, Irish child migrants, Irish inquiry child abuse, Kevin Stace, Leonie Sheedy, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malta child migrants, Peter McClellan, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Alkira Boys’ Home, Salvos, UK child migrants
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The Maltese Connection (Or: The Forgotten Children of Malta)
Image: Malta’s Child Migrant Memorial (Source: Times of Malta http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100509/letters/abused-maltese-child-migrants.306450) Malta was a source of “child migrants” to Australia. Most attention has been placed on the child migrants from the U.K., largely because there were 7,000 from the U.K. and … Continue reading
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Tagged Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Bindoon, Castledare Junior Orphanage, Catholic Church Children’s Homes, Child Migrants of Malta, Christian Brothers, Clontarf Boys’ Town, Dr. Cachia Zammit, Lawrence Gonzi, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malta, Maltese Child Migrants, Nazareth House Geraldton, Ocean Triumph, Paul Cremona, Philip Calleja, Professor David Plowman, Sisters of Nazareth, Spanish Benedictine Monks, St. Joseph’s Trade and Farm School, St. Mary’s Agricultural School, Tardun, Valetta Grand Harbour
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Northern Ireland’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (Or: Ireland Calling)
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry in Northern Ireland is the latest of five child abuse enquiries there. It is particularly relevant to Australia in that it will include Irish children sent here as “child migrants” (see previous posting). It … Continue reading
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Tagged Amnesty International, Bindoon, Cardinal George Pell, Catholic Cardinal George Pell, child migrants, Christian Brothers, Domus Australia, Forde Inquiry, George Pell, HIA, HIA inquiry, Ireland, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Magdalene Laundry, Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Enquiry, Queensland Government Forde Enquiry, United Nations Committee Against Torture
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Brother Kearney, the Perfect (Or: Once Upon a Time…)
Image source: http://www.elitetours.net.au (Bindoon, main administration building) Bindoon Boys’ Town head, Fr. Paul Francis Kearney was a Christian Brother who died in 1954. As previous postings have noted, he was an alleged sadist and paedophile. To his Order, the Catholic … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Murray, Bindoon, Bindoon Boys' Town, Brother Kearney, Brother Nick Bilich, Brother Paul Francis Kearney, Brother Sebastian Quilligan, C-BERS, Catholic Agricultural College Bindoon, child migrants, child migration, Christian Brothers, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse
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Brother Francis Paul Keaney, the Abuser (Or: Spare the Rod? No Way!)
Image above: Construction of the administration building at Bindoon, 1952. Brother Kearney, of Bindoon notoriety, was a saint to the Catholic Church and a monster to the boys placed in his “care”. The Catholic Church erected a huge statue of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Murray, Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, “Lost Innocents: Righting the Record – Report on Child Migration”, Bindoon, Bindoon Boys' Town, Brother Edward Bryan, Brother Kearney, Brother Kearney statue, Brother Paul Francis Kearney, Catholic Church child sexual abuse, child migrants, child migration, Christian Brothers, Christian Brothers child sexual abuse, Edmund House, John Hennessy, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse
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The Horror That Was Bindoon (Or: The Orphans’ Fiend)
Image source: http://ukpaedos-exposed.com/cover-ups/uk-child-migrants/ Bindoon Boys’ Town was a Christian Brothers’ facility in Western Australia. It was run by Br. Kearney, known in his circles as “The Orphans’ Friend” but as a “Christian Bugger” monster by the boys who passed through … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Gill, Andrew Murray, “Empty Cradles”, “Lost Innocents: Righting the Record – Report on Child Migration”, “Oranges and Sunshine”, “Orphans of the Empire”, “The Bindoon File”, “Who Am I?”, Bernardo’s, Big Bother Movement, Bindoon, Bindoon Boys' Town, Brother Edward Bryan, Brother Kearney, Brother Kearney statue, Brother Paul Francis Kearney, Catholic Church child sexual abuse, Child Migrant Trust, child migrants, child migration, Child Migration to Canada, Christian Brothers, Christian Brothers child sexual abuse, Dreadnought Trust, Edmund House, Fairbridge, John Hennessy, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Margaret Humphreys, Mick Snell, Robert Taylor, Voices
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