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I am having an interview with Julie Anne Stewart at
Dandenong and Faye Chandley is with us.
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POC: Now Julie the first thing I always tell people that until you tell me
otherwise what you tell me is confidential, I must say if what you
are going to tell me constitutes criminal conduct which I suspect it
probably does you have got a right to go to the police and report it
to the police, you don't have to do that there is no obligation to do it
but I must tell you that you have that right and indeed I would
encourage you to exercise it. It you don't want to exercise it that
another matter I am perfectly happy to listen to you - what you have
got to say in confidence. Perhaps the best thing to do is to tell me
what it's about first and then we can talk about that later.
Can I just interrupt you.
POC Yes
If that happens are you obligated to under the law to take that
further is ....
POC No I now obliged to .......... the report. I can for instance conduct
an entirely private hearing if I wanted to and the people are
agreeable - so what I am telling you and I repeat if you say to me
now took at least at this stage what I am going to tell you I require
you to undertake to me that you will keep confidential until t tell you
otherwise l will do so. We can discuss then after you have told me
what you ought to do.
JAS: OK.
POC OK. Now do you mind if t ask you a few questions.
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JAS : You can ask me anything you need ...
POC How old are you?
JAS: I am 21.
POC: 21 and I think Faye told me that you approached her the other night
- you saw her in the supermarket
JAS : Yeah it would have been about three weeks ago.
POC And what do you do - do you work?
JAS: Yes I do, I work for an engineering company - I do accounting.
POC Whereabouts?
REDACTED , JAS : yeah
POC I see. I could almost see you from my office.
And you were a student at Holy Family Doveton.
JAS: Yes I was.
POC: When did you go there?
JAS : I went there - I think it would have been in 1981.
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POC Yes, and obviously you ..
JAS: 81 or 82 - I started prep there.
POC You started prep
JAS: Yeah.
POC: Did you stay there until when?
JAS: I stayed there until September 1986.
POC: So you would have been in about grade 5. And you obviously
would have known Fr. Searson.
JAS: Yes, definitely.
POC: And who were your early teachers.
JAS: Early teachers - grade 3 was Mrs. Wright, grade 4 was Mrs Barrett.
POC: That's Shirley Barrett.
JAS: That right, she's lovely.
POC: Well I was going to speak to her today but I haven't ....
JAS: Oh sure, she would certainly remember.
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POC: Yeah.
JAS: Most people do.
POC: And who was teaching you in grade 4?
JAS: Mrs. Barrett.
POC: And grade 5?
JAS Mr Loch - I was in a composite grade 5 and 6 with Mr Loch.
POC: Well now you had some incident, tell me about it. Well incidences
if
JAS: Well there was one major incident but there was a bit of a build up
to it. When we had reconciliation - it was in the private little box so
to speak so no one could see what was going on in there or
anything and Fr. Searson would always make sure that you sat on
his knee - he always - come and sit on Father's knee - if you didn't
sit on his knee he would get very distressed that you would not sit
on his knew.
POC: By distressed you mean cross.
JAS: Cross - at first it would be come on, come on and sit on Father's
knee and he couldn't understand why you didn't want to - it was
basically an order - you really had no choice. You know so you
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would sit on his knee and he would sit and actually his hand was
always placed here
POC: His hand was placed on you
JAS: Placed on your thigh and he would always have his hand moving
up and down on the thigh.
POC: And you would have been wearing a dress.
JAS: Dress, track suit pants, just the uniform that it was - depending ..
POC: Normally when you were wearing a dress your legs would be bare.
JAS: Yes that's right - most definitely.
POC: This was in - what grade were you in?
JAS: I was in grade - this would have been when he was there - grade 3,
yeah and grade 4 and he - that's how it was for grade 3 - we did
have first communion with him and then it was grade 4 - that's right
he always use to say give Father a kiss and tell me that you love
me. Tell Father that you love him. I thought that was a bit - but
you look up to a priest like you look up to your parent - you just
trust them - you don't know any different and there was one time
because this is the time that I went in and I remember - I remember
how my hair was - I had plaits - it was Winter - I had the track suit,
full track suit on and I went in and I was very on edge that day
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POC: Why was that?
JAS: I think that I just didn't like going to reconciliation because he was
just always very touchy and he use to say things like "Give Father a
kiss, God will be happy if you give Father a kiss and a cuddle".
POC: Before this time how many times would you have sat have been
asked to sit on his knee?
JAS: Every time - we use to go to reconciliation every fortnight - it had to
be every fortnig hi.
POC: And each time you had reconciliation
JAS: Always sat on his knee and he would sit you right where you could
feel
POC: Feel his penis
JAS: You could definitely feel his penis. I didn't know at the time what ....
because I .. you could feel it.
POC: And it was erect?
JAS Yeah definitely.
POC And this rubbing of your thigh was that
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JAS: That was just caressing you - there was nothing in that at the time
POC: Yes.
JAS: This time I went in and I sat on his knee again and give the usual
kiss and told him that I loved him and then he sat me right where I
could feel and then he grabbed his hand and he absolutely moved
rubbed his hand right across there.
POC: When you say right across - right across your genital
JAS: That's right.
POC Right across your vagina.
JAS: That's it - absolutely - yeah and I totally freaked out I was totally so
distressed I can't explain it to you because - the trust - I just got up
after that and I ran - and he had this smile on his face
POC: On this particular day
JAS: On this particular day I was running out to Mrs Barrett and I was so
distressed and she was trying to calm me down and I remember
looking at all my friends and they were all - they were student in
that class and they were like - they had no idea what had gone on
and Mrs Barrett was trying to ask me what happened and clam me
down and I couldn't say because I was so distressed and then she
took me to see Mr Sleeman and he was trying to calm me down but
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I didn't want him to touch me or anything - I just didn't want him to -
and then he rang my Mum and I was not allowed to go to
reconciliation after that and ..
POC: Yeah and you say Mr Sleeman - you saw Shirley Barrett
immediate ly
JAS:
POC
JAS:
Yeah immediately yeah I went running to her straight after.
And then you were taken to Graham Sleeman and he tried to calm
you down. And what happened did he calm you down.
Yeah he always use to tell me that I was his little girl - he was really
good - yeah he said he was going to ring my Mum and I think I was
worried that she would be angry at me - I don't know why.
POC Yeah I know - what year would this have been now?
JAS: "85 - 84, 86 I went to yeah "85 I'd say - yeah because he came
there at '84 - yeah it would have been '85.
POC: And you said you had some of your friends who were outside.
Were they waiting
JAS: They were actually sitting there - some had already been in and
li1!D some were waiting to go in and actually one of my friends liJj•t+ttJI liii!fflll see her now and then - I saw her this morning on the train
and she said to me that at that time she didn't if she went in after
me or before me but she didn't sit on knee and he was so angry
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POC:
JAS:
with her - he was really frustrated because she wouldn't sit on his
knee. She remembers that because she remembers that was the
day that I went running out - she remembers that very clearly.
Where does REDACTED live
She lives at REDACTED , Doveton.
POC: Ah does she .. ....... I'm really very familiar with Oandenong I've
been up and down those streets often ... Do you think she would
have a chat with me.
JAS: Yeah, I asked her actually if she would because I want to - I'd had
so many people want to things and this and nothing has ever been
done and it's just been left for so long and I am absolutely sick of it
- he's been there for so long it's not funny and I can't understand
when some people say there is not enough evidence - I mean what
evidence was - that's wrong what he did - what evidence is there.
POC: The evidence you have just told me is evidence.
JAS: Exactly, well I can't understand why it had taken - well it taken me a
long time to realise in a way that what he did was really totally
wrong, because as you grow older you learn and I am not going to
come out and tell my parent exactly - I mean I thought - couldn't
come out and say straight away Oh he touched me he did this
because ..
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POC: I know .. I've heard people just like you say that a hundred time -
thousand time - It's just the way it happens. Tell me this you
always had some - any friends whose name - there islsl@•t+WI
REDACTED JAS: - ah I can't remember.
POC: Do you know ~lsr_v _ _ ~
JAS ~IBT_v __ ~I very well - ~IB_Tv _ _ ~I and I have grown up together -
yeah
POC: Well she remembers you - she remembers that incident quite well
and I've seen her and now tell me this did you tell - did Graham ring
up your Mother.
JAS: Yeah
POC: And did you not tell your mother much about it?
JAS: No, she knows only now. She knew before actually I probably told
her a couple of years ago what actually happened and she is just
very angry because they all went down - the whole group of them
went to - and I suppose she was a bit disappointed - she said why
didn't you tell me what exactly happened and it is hard for me to
say well you know I couldn't actually say the words - I was young - I
didn't - I felt ashamed - I felt
POC Does your father
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JAS: My father - no - he knew not long ago. And my brother just found
out a couple of weeks ago.
POC: How old is your brother?
JAS: My brother isi;.
POC: I see and who told him?
JAS: I did.
POC: And you had some counselling did you?
JAS: Yes I did.
POC: From whom?
JAS: A Leigh Goldman in St Kilda.
POC: And how long after this event did you have counselling?
JAS: I had it when I was 18.
POC: And between that time when you turned 19 and went to Leigh
Goldman did you tell anyone else about it?
JAS: Yes I did because when I was at St John's I told um - I went to see
counselling - I was very confused growing up and I always felt after
- I always felt very different and I always wondered why me for
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quite a while - and any way when I use to go to counselling to see
Sister Colleen at St John's and she talked to Michael Quinn who
was the principal head master at the time and we went to see him
and he was going to help me out and I gave him all the information
I had on it and he took ...
POC: Did you tell him what you told me?
JAS: No - I still couldn't say it for a long time.
POC: Well that what I am really asking you did you tell anyone about the
actual?
JAS: Yes I did Leigh Goldman.
POC: Leigh Goldman - but you were 18 then - so
JAS: Before then I guess because um in hospital but I only told .... she
wouldn't remember.
POC: Why were you in hospital?
JAS: Because I attempted suicide.
POC: How old were you then?
JAS: I was 15.
POC: What did you do?
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JAS I told quite a few - I think 36 Panedine - and I don't know how many
Panadol - it's just that I had had too many let downs and this is the
lead up to - that was when I gave all the information to Fr Searson
because we saw him at St John's quite a few time - he use to do
church things there and it use to really distress me a lot.
POC: At St Johns - when - sorry to be jumping around
JAS: That's OK.
POC: But when you had this incident you told him - and told Graham and
Graham told your mother something but not the details did you
leave that school then?
JAS: I left - no I stayed on for a bit longer.
POC You stayed on at Holy Family until
JAS: Until September 1989
POC: And then where did you go?
JAS: St Mary's
POC: Yes I see. So you went but you went to St Mary's that year?
JAS: No the next year.
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POC: And then you stayed at St Mary's for how long?
JAS: A year only ...
POC: And then you went to St John's - and when you were at St John's
you had this suicide attempt did you?
JAS: Yes I did.
POC: And preceding that you were saying some thing which was leading
to
JAS: Yeah because so many people wanted to help and I kept getting
built up that finally something was going to happen to Fr Searson
and I really thought something was finally going to happen because
the head master was going to help out and so was
POC: What head master?
JAS Michael Quinn and he brought me in and said no no we can't help
you out and he didn't give me any of my files back or anything - any
card that I had or anything on - or anything - he just kept it all and it
was such a let down for me I can't explain to you because I trusted
so many people to help me and I just thought I can't believe this I
had been so let down and then
POC: You told him did you?
JAS: Yeah I told him
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POC:
JAS:
POC:
JAS:
POC:
JAS:
POC:
JAS:
FC
JAS
POC:
That you had been
Yeah
In the way you described it to me?
Yeah interfered with- yeah - Sister Colleen
Sister Colleen - you told Sister Colleen
Sister Colleen - yes I did.
The other Sister Colleen
I don't know if she is at St John's still - you could find out.
She's a Presentation sister
Do you know who I am talking about?
Just in case you can't hear the tape Faye Chandley says Sister
Colleen is a Presentation Sister so we will be able to follow her up
through the CEO anyway. And Michael Quinn was then the
headmaster of St John's?
JAS: He's not know.
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POC: And now Patrick Power is down there and were you there when
Patrick Power was there?
JAS: Yeah.
POC: Did you tell him anything?
JAS: No, I gave up - I was very bitter after believe me.
POC: And do you know where Michael Quinn is?
JAS: Isn't he in charge of
FC: He is headmaster at Sunshine.
POC: And Julie when you gave him the card?
JAS: I had a police officer chase up after all this - his name was I think
IBTV lknew it was REDACTED or something - it sounds really
funny I know but
POC: I don't know
JAS That was - he came - now he said someone was writing
anonymous letters saying that people were still getting interfered
with or something like that and he thought it was me sending them
and I said oh no I have not been sending them
POC But I could give you some information
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JAS: Yeah - he was going around and he came and wrote a statement
and asked me and I don't really remember much about all that.
POC: Did he come and take a statement here?
JAS: Yeah he took it
POC: Did he take it on tape or write it down.
JAS: No he wrote it.
POC: Did you sign it?
JAS: Yes.
POC: Do you have a copy of it?
JAS: No.
POC: Tell me his name again lfid•7ttilf
JAS: lPi'r1tJIJ- I did get a copy of it and I gave all that to Michael Quinn
and he took it all off me and never gave it back - what I'm saying -
the Catholic system is just
POC: Let's just get the facts on him - the - but REDACTED
JAS: Yeah - but he's not doing it all
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POC Dandenong Police Station
JAS: I've got no idea where he was from - I had a card on him - I've got
no idea.
POC: Did he say he was from the child exploitation squad?
JAS: Yeah.
POC: He did say that did he?
JAS: Yeah.
POC: And when do you think that was that he interviewed you?
JAS: That was before I
POC: Had a go.
JAS Attempted suicide - um the build up to all of that too -
POC: That would be about six years ago?
JAS: 1991 yep 1991 - actually two days after New Year - January the
third.
POC: He saw you or you went yourself that sort of thing
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JAS: He saw me before.
POC: You saw this other chap was
JAS: Yeah in August 15.
POC: So you saw him on January 2 or 3 of 1991 and it was August 15
JAS: That I attempted suicide
POC: Well I'm glad you didn't succeed.
JAS: No, well so am I because I certainly
POC: You were going ... .. anyway that is fine but you were - it was after
you sawliiR•&fi' that you gave Quinn the statement and some
other documents - what were the documents?
JAS: There was a card which REDACTED was what he was doing - just
basically all the information that I had that I knew - basically that
was ..
POC: Had you written out some stuff yourself?
JAS: I write poetry and stories and all that stuff.
POC: But had you written about this incident had you?
JAS: In my writing?
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POC: Yeah
JAS Yeah
POC: And you gave some of that ...
JAS: No, that's all personal for me.
POC: I see but what I was really asking you didn't - apart from the
statement you made to liJ9•1rttJI you didn't write just a brief
description or a
JAS: Yes I did and then I find something - he could have wrote
something.
POC:
POC:
JAS:
mBI -Is this- yes its:
Um
Did you
No, no with Michael Quinn - that's what I am saying - and I signed
something with him - he sort of briefed out - I'm trying to remember
all these - he typed sort of brief something out how it all - what was
going on and this and that and then um - I didn't feel comfortable to
be honest I was there because I was sort of forced by Sister
Colleen because she really wanted me to do something about it
and I did too but I suppose that because I was just a bit
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POC:
JAS:
POC
JAS:
POC
apprehensive so to speak because Catholic - I just didn't - not that I
- I am putting down the Catholic Church - it is the people in it not
the actual - but I'm just saying I wasn't very comfortable so I didn't
say everything because I thought "You are not going to help me"
and I was rig hi. He didn't.
And at this stage you told your Mum and Dad very little?
Yes.
What happened - if I can just jump back
Yes that is fine
When Graham Sleeman told your Mother about this incident you
didn't go to confession again?
JAS: Never.
POC And you stayed at the school for a while longer but then were you -
what caused you to go to St Mary's?
JAS: I was just - I couldn't - I was a very distressed child - very - I
needed to get away and start fresh - I thought I did - because it was
just - I couldn't - I felt very alone but people - I suppose because
they knew something went down and I didn't like it.
POC How did you persuade your Motherto
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JAS: Well I was at my friend's place and I was taking to her saying I
wanted - well actually one of my friends
everything about me - she knows.
POC: li{ijf;i?
REDACTED JAS : - she knows everything .
POC: Where is she?
REDACTED
JAS She lives in Dandenong North - between REDACTED
knows
- she
knows every little thing that has gone on in my life - so there's one.
POC: Do you know where she lives?
JAS : Yeah I do.
POC: Well what's the address?
REDACTED JAS: North Dandenong.
POC: Have you told her you are going to talk to me?
JAS : No.
POC: Wou ld she talk to me?
JAS: Yeah - she'd let you know what's gone on .
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POC: Have you got a phone number?
JAS: l;J9•1ttill and she works for the North Melbourne Football Club.
The MCG
POC: I can still say I barrack for Collingwood.
JAS: So do I?
POC: But I'm also Chairman of the Appeals Tribunal of the AFL so I'm
supposed to impartial - but you've got to have a team. Do you
barrack for Collingwood?
JAS: Yeah I do.
POC: I don't know how we'll go . .... In private I am very worried about the
Magpies ... But soll)j~*W
JAS: She's my best - most I could tell her anything and she'd
POC: And you did tell her did you?
JAS: Everything.
POC And so you were telling me this in the context of changing schools
that you were
JAS: I just felt I really felt that I was always emotional there. I was
always crying - I was always seeking attention of some sort and I
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just needed to get away. I needed to start afresh. I wanted to
move on and my Mum and I she was talking about it with my Dad
exactly the same day and I came home troml;19•741 saying I
wanted to change schools and Mum said "Well that's funny
because your father and I were talking about it" and the next week I
was at St Mary's
POC: Truly.
JAS: It did not take long.
POC: Were you the principal there then?
Yes.
POC: Did l;ii•t+ff stay on at Doveton.
JAS: No [tj~ttlwasn't at no, no she is just a friend that I tell everything
to. She is like my sort of counsellor so to speak.
POC: How old is she?
JAS: She is 22.
POC: She ..... But where did she go to school?
JAS: She went to school at Dandenong North and Dandenong High.
POC: Well how -
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JAS: How do I know her?
POC: Well how did you keep so friendly with a girls whose going to
another school. Well I know kids who do ..
JAS: She lived down the street - there you go.
POC: OK. So you were neighbours.
JAS Neighbours - yes.
POC: Did you see Sister Colleen at St Mary's?
JAS: No I saw another lady that that put me onto Mary West.
POC: Who was that
F.C. (Inaudible)
POC: What did you tell her?
JAS: To be honest I really can't remember - because it was such a blur
just towards the end - I loved St Mary's more than I loved Holy
Family and I was at Holy Family a lot longer but um but it's always
such a blur what I use to go in and talk to her about I honestly can't
remember.
POC: Would she
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FC: Yes she is.
POC: Would she have notes do you think?
FC: Whether she has the notes or whether they became the property of
the monastery there is a possibility they were shredded when the
centre was closed, but I could follow that up I know where she is.
POC: I'd very obliged if you did because when you say she was part of
what? The media
F.C. She was and Services Division which was acceptable to both
the Government, School also the system
POC: Fine - why did you do that because you perceived something.
F.C Julie asked to see me.
POC: I see and did Julie tell you what had happened.
F.C. Yes she did. She was quietly distressed and 1 ............ ..
talk with the grade 5 and 6 students about rights and keeping
themselves safe and no one had any right to touch them. That we
precipitated that ......
POC And she told you what she told me?
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FC Exactly but didn't go into the detail. She indicated the context
and she was too upset to talk directly ......
JAS: Yes, I still can't even say it now. I get
FC: I contacted Fr. Julian Langridge who was acting ......... for four year
and Ros was coming in to do some counselling with Julie and I
contacted Julie's mother. I had my notes
POC: O.K. well that's fine. I have seen a reference to ......
(Inaudible)
How long after that did you go to St John's?
JAS: 1988.
POC: I see and when you were at St John's you had this incident where
you endeavoured to tell Michael Quinn
JAS: That was 1988 - my teacher was Mr. Colvin who was my home
room teacher. Mr. Colvin goes to Holy Family parish - do you know
Mr. Colvin? Does he like Fr. Searson because I have a feeling that
he does because we had a big disagreement about Fr. Searson
and I didn't like I didn't liked Mr Colvin either but that was because
he was friendly I didn't like any man who was over friendly so I was
an awful student to him very hard to get on with so to speak.
POC: When you say friendly then you thought he might be going to do
something
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JAS: Yes I did because I did his hand would come and I couldn't stand it
any teacher who did that or anybody or anyone with the same hand
or anything I freaked out totally - definitely. Yeah he knew
something was ...... but I never really told him.
POC: Then O.K. who was your next teacher - we will plod through your
course?
JAS: Year 8 was Mrs Miss Pasquina she didn't know anything that went
on in my life.
POC: O.K.
JAS Year 9 was Mr Kent - nor did he. Year 10 was Mr. Livingston - I
was very emotional in that year I think because at that stage of 15
or 16 you are learning a lot about yourself - you're learning a lot
about what's going on with yourself
POC: Things are happening.
JAS: It's all starting basically it's all starting to come together and that
was 1991 when I attempted suicide and a lot was going on
emotionally with me - boy friends were coming on the scene and
that was all freaky for me. Mr. Livingston didn't do anything - that
was when I was seeing Sister Colleen.
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POC: So you were then seeing Sister Colleen and then when you had
your attempted suicide and you went to hospital you told the nurse
you think.
JAS:
POC:
JAS:
POC:
JAS:
POC:
Yeah I did I told the nurse.
What hospital were you in?
Dandenong
Who was your doctor.
I've no idea because I only went once or twice
August 15 you would have been in hospital - and how long were
you in hospital?
JAS: I was in hospital until August - that was a Thursday I got out on
Monday morning.
POC: That was 15 to 19 August 1991. And were are the records of that.
And you think you told a nurse.
JAS: Because she came and said to me I told her and she said I had a
bastard do that to me stuff them all.
POC: You don't remember her name -
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JAS I've got no idea. She has got so many patients she came in - even
when she finished work she came in to see me - sat down and
talked to me and told me that she had someone do that to her and
POC: Alright when you came out of hospital
JAS: Sister Colleen came here and I was angry at her I did not want to
see her I did not want to see her because she let me down and I
POC
JAS
went to see her the day before I took the tablet because I needed
to talk to someone I was going absolutely crazy - I had to talk to her
and she - I was talking to IBTV lin the hallway and I was talking
to IBTV lsaying - I was upset about something - I can't
remember what I was saying and lBTV lwas trying to calm me
down and then I said I've got to go and she was making me laugh
and joke and I went to see Sister Colleen
~lsr_v __ ~l was making you
l~sr_v __ ~I was trying to calm me down and I went to see Sister
Colleen and she said you are ten minutes late and that was it and I
said right.
POC So you took the drastic step.
JAS Yeah I real ly make my mind up what I was going to do and then
that same day or so I was seeing some boy at the time - nothing
serious - and he said I don't know whether I like you any more - so
little things triggered me off and that was it.
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POC: And you had treatment stomach pump and all that
JAS Yeah yeah
POC And when Sister Colleen came here.
JAS She came here - she wanted to see me at the hospital - I would
have probably got up and hit her. I was very angry.
POC: And when she came did you ...
JAS I sat there, I couldn't look at her - I couldn't look I was so angry at
her and she keep wanting me to see her afterwards and I think I
went a couple of times after - I was so angry at her and she kept
wanting me to see her afterwards and I think I went a couple of
times after but I just wanted nothing to do with her - absolutely
nothing to do with her and I never saw her after that.
POC: And you hadn't discussed this with - you were seen by the police
very early in January and when do you think you spoke to Quinn
and gave him amongst other things the police statement?
JAS: I was still in the summer uniform
POC: I've got six sons, I'd be no good as a ..... .
JAS Summer uniform OK it was the first term.
POC: O.K. and you didn't hear from him again after that did you?
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