Britain ‘waiting for Abused Child Migrants to Die’

By Sean O’Neill
The Times
July 21, 2017

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-waiting-for-abused-child-migrants-to-die-says-norman-johnston-british-high-commissioner-to-australia-cb296fr88

Gordon Brown arrives at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in London to give evidence

A British high commissioner to Australia said that the government was not interested in the plight of abused child migrants because it was waiting for them to die, a public inquiry was told yesterday.

The claim was made by Norman Johnston, 75, who said it had taken 30 years of campaigning to get the British government to apologise for the suffering of children taken from their families and sent to schools in former colonies. Mr Johnston, president of the International Association of Former Child Migrants, told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse: “The British government sent us to places that they knew were not safe for children. I want the British public to know that.”

More than 130,000 children were sent to the colonies…