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News Report: Boy Runs Away from Boarding School
Black boy runs away from boarding school

Just Yesterday afternoon a black boy ran away from his boarding school in Perth.
Just yesterday afternoon reporters were told that a black teenaged boy named Willie ran away from his boarding school in Perth.
Earlier that day it was brought to the priest attention that there had been thefts in the schools canteen. The boys were called into the school’s chapel to find out who had committed the thefts.
Father Benedictus asked who had committed this sin, one of the prefects in the school owned up to his crime. Father Benedictus said that “I am very disappointed in him,” he said, “he was a prefect and yet he chose to throw it all away.”
Fellow class mates commented on this event saying that the priest called him a’ rotten Arabians bare’
Another aborigine said that father Benedictus also called him a ‘stain of the celebration of life’
Fellow teacher aids commented that he yelled out that Willie was an abomination in the eyes of god.
Two of the black boy sitting close enough to the front said that they heard father Benedictus saying that “he should have known that one of your aboriginal kind would be worth nothing,”
Willie replied to the priest” that’s not true father,” he said, “there is nothing I would rather be then to be an aborigine,” he said before running out the front doors.
Fellow students say that he may have started a long journey to his home town in

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