He took me into the clinic and said ‘we have permission to circumcise you’. He said a male staff member who “didn’t like little boys with foreskins” used to perform illegal and botched circumcisions on the children at Daruk. In his submission to the commission, Mr Myers said he was raped and bashed by various staff at the home on a regular basis over the five years he lived there. Gordon Myers, 50, told he was 13 when he was sent to the institution for the first time in 1978. A MAN who alleged his penis was cut off by a male staff member at a Sydney boys’ home was one of many children who were mutilated and severely abused at the facility, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.ĭaruk Training School in Windsor was home to hundreds of state wards and juvenile offenders from 1960-1991.