The survivor, who asked to remain anonymous, said when he went to retrieve his records from Presbyterian Support Otago (PSO) they had been "torn out" except for three or four pages at the end.
It comes after revelations in the damning final report from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care that Mrs Bremner, the former PSO chief executive, instructed a staff member to destroy records about children and young people in the organisation’s care in late 2017 or early 2018.
The survivor alleged he was sexually and physically abused at Glendining Children’s Home, in Dunedin, between 1953 and the early 1960s.
He said when he attempted to retrieve his records from the PSO offices around 2019, Mrs Bremner refused to hand them over right away and told him he would have to wait a month to eight weeks to get them.
Mrs Bremner had given "every bloody excuse under the sun not to give them to me" and, when he did retrieve them, he believed most had been destroyed as he could see where pages had been torn out of his file.
"The way they ripped them out, they’d left the top of the page in the corner.
"I tell you, it would have been as thick as a bloody matchbox."
The report said Mrs Bremner’s decision to destroy the records was made after she sought "informal advice" from Dunedin lawyer Frazer Barton, who told her PSO could destroy the documents "but at an appropriate milestone or anniversary".
Mr Barton, a partner at Anderson Lloyd, has since taken a leave of absence from his role as president of the New Zealand Law Society as well as his duties on the University of Otago council.
The survivor said Mr Barton was "covering his ass" and called for him to "be stripped of his registration".
Mrs Bremner’s decision to destroy the records was "despicable".
"That lady should be brought back to this country and charged.
"Those two need to be held accountable."
Last week, Anderson Lloyd chief executive Richard Greenaway said Mr Barton was a "highly respected" senior member of the firm’s team.
"However, it is important to note Mr Barton was acting in his personal capacity while a [PSO] board member and it was in this capacity that he gave the informal advice."
Anderson Lloyd had no comment to make regarding a complaint about Mr Barton made to the Law Society, Mr Greenaway said.
When Anderson Lloyd was asked yesterday if this was still the case, the ODT received a reply from Thompson Lewis — an Auckland-based consultancy firm whose website says offers strategic communications and "crisis management advice".
In the reply the company’s founder and director, G.J. Thompson, said Anderson Lloyd would not be making any further comment.
