William Coombes
"I am ... 58 years old. I live in Vancouver, Canada.
"I am a survivor of the Kamloops and Mission Indian residential schools, both run by the Roman Catholic church.
"I suffered terrible tortures there at the hands especially of Brother Murphy, who killed at least two children.
"I witnessed him throw a child off a three story balcony to her death.
"He put me on a rack and broke some of my bones, in the Kamloop school basement, after I tried running away.
"I also saw him and another priest burying a child in the school orchard one night.
"In October, 1964 when I was 12 years old, I was an inmate at the Kamloops school and we were visited by the Queen of England and Prince Phillip...
"The day the Queen got to the school, I was part of a group of kids that went on a picnic with her and her husband and some of the priests, down to a meadow near Dead Man’s Creek.
"I remember it was weird because we all had to bend down and kiss her foot, a white laced boot.
"After awhile, I saw the Queen leave the picnic with ten children from the school, and those kids never returned.
"We never heard anything more about them and never met them again even when we were older. They were all from around there but they all vanished.
"The group that disappeared was seven boys and three girls, in age from six to fourteen years old..."
"I am a survivor of the Kamloops and Mission Indian residential schools, both run by the Roman Catholic church.
"I suffered terrible tortures there at the hands especially of Brother Murphy, who killed at least two children.
"I witnessed him throw a child off a three story balcony to her death.
"He put me on a rack and broke some of my bones, in the Kamloop school basement, after I tried running away.
"I also saw him and another priest burying a child in the school orchard one night.
"In October, 1964 when I was 12 years old, I was an inmate at the Kamloops school and we were visited by the Queen of England and Prince Phillip...
"The day the Queen got to the school, I was part of a group of kids that went on a picnic with her and her husband and some of the priests, down to a meadow near Dead Man’s Creek.
"I remember it was weird because we all had to bend down and kiss her foot, a white laced boot.
"After awhile, I saw the Queen leave the picnic with ten children from the school, and those kids never returned.
"We never heard anything more about them and never met them again even when we were older. They were all from around there but they all vanished.
"The group that disappeared was seven boys and three girls, in age from six to fourteen years old..."