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Boy, 6, sent by judge to live with dad who abused him for seven years

A man has spoken out about his ‘hell on Earth’ after he was physically and sexually abused by his father from the age of six.

The boy, now 19, was sent to live with his dad by a Family Court judge in Australia and suffered years of neglect and violence as a result.

Despite telling his mother about the abuse, it continued for seven years as he remained living in his father’s house.

“There were many times when he was abusing me physically and sexually of course. That was my very, very earliest memories,” the boy told the ABC.

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