New Zealand Royal Commission
Title: Survivors of abuse by Catholic Church at Christchurch school to give evidence to Royal Commission
Author: Nadine Porter
Publisher: Stuff.co.nz
Date: 03NOV2021
He was a naive vulnerable kid from the country, abandoned by his parents, when a man named Bernie McGrath came into his life.
At a confusing age and seemingly unwanted, Hanz Freller was put into McGrath’s care under the guise of the Hebron Trust in the late 1980s in Christchurch.
Conceived as a house for street kids and run by the St John of God brothers, Freller was reunited with his estranged brother and learnt quickly which hardened youths he could and could not trust.
But trust was already established in Brother McGrath who seemed decent, with a reassuring Catholic Church clergy behind him.
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