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‘I was walking into an ambush’: Former Wallaby Tony Daly speaks out about childhood sexual abuse

“I can acknowledge it and I accept the ramification. But I won’t accept that I was a 10, 11-year-old boy and I was walking into an ambush. It shouldn’t have happened.”
There are small moments around which our lives turn. A chance encounter, a diagnosis, a shared connection.
The defining moment in Tony Daly’s life happened when he was just 11.
The man who he claims sexually abused him was a Catholic brother at his new boarding school.
He’d just been sent to St Joseph’s in Sydney — better known as Joeys — one of Australia’s biggest and most prestigious Catholic boys’ schools, a virtual rugby union factory, famous for pumping out future Wallabies.
Tony Daly was one of them. He reached the highest of highs, achieving a lifelong ambition to…
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