Officer-in-charge of Gracemere Police Station Sergeant Ben Holdcroft at the locked gates of the abandoned St Joseph's Orphanage at Neerkol in 2012. Photo: Rockhampton Morning Bulletin
Here are a few witness statements or descriptions:
A nun drags another child to the priest's quarters and tells him to be a "good boy", before the man who has supposedly committed his life to God forces him into unspeakable acts.
A stock whip wielded by a young man paints bloody stripes across a small boy's bare back while several nuns and dozens of children watch on.
Beating a boy on the genitals with a ruler while telling him his penis was "the devil".
Forcing bed-wetters to stand hungry in the dining room with their urine-soaked sheets draped over their heads while the other children ate breakfast.
Ms Adams once confided in a relieving priest who seemed friendly. He raped her and swore her to secrecy.
The farmer he'd been sent to work for, Mr Paterson, hadn't liked the blood on the back of his pants - caused by being repeatedly raped by chaplain Father John Anderson.
"He told me I was a good worker but I couldn't go out to service until I stopped bleeding from the backside," Mr Owen testified.
"He said that he knew Fr Anderson was abusing me but I wasn't to tell anyone, and that if I was caught bleeding I was to say that it was piles.
"Mr Paterson and Fr Anderson were friends."