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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alana Calvert

Farm school victim was threatened after accusing war hero of child sexual abuse

A survivor of a farm school in rural Australia owed compensation by the Prince’s Trust said he received threats and abuse after becoming the first person to publicly accuse Australian governor general Sir William Slim of child sexual abuse.

After decades of silence, Robert Stephens told an Australian newspaper in 2007 the celebrated British war hero had molested him in the 1950s – prompting other men to come forward.

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