article_snippet.sent: AYL, who was sent to an Australian orphanage in 1961 at the age of 10, assumed a boy meant this as a reference to the broom.
article_snippet.sent: I do not know what happened to a boy,' AYL told the commission. '
article_snippet.sent: At the time, I was told that I was having the devil taken out of me.'
article_snippet.sent: One woman told the inquiry One woman was made to scrub the floor with a toothbrush when One woman told a priest about the sexual abuse One woman suffered at Neerkol.
article_snippet.sent: Former residents told of being locked in rooms and cupboards, starved of food and water, being forced to drink Former residents own urine for hydration and to lick Former residents own vomit.
article_snippet.sent: Boys who tried to run away from Neerkol were publicly flogged with horse whips and those who wet the bed were forced to stand with the soiled sheets draped over Boys who tried to run away from Neerkol heads.