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By Ben Chenoweth
Jan. 15, 2013
INGLEBURN resident John Hennessey celebrated a mini victory last week when Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the terms of reference for a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Mr Hennessey was among the victims of Britain’s child migrant policy and one of many children who were cast into virtual slavery and sexually abused while institutionalised.
The policy saw more than 130,000 British children shipped to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the then Southern Rhodesia from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Mr Hennessey who was taken from his mother at birth said he had been, “seeking justice for a long time”. He will also be called to testify at the royal commission.
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