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SARAH CRAWFORD | September 17th, 2013
FOUR heart attacks in the past year have prompted Frank Holden to tell of the two hellish years he spent in a notorious boys’ home.
Mr Holden, of Darwin River, has been asked to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and he is keen to have his say when it sits in Top End next month.
“I’m not well at all, I don’t mind telling my story – what do I have to lose?” he said.
“Anything to get the story out there to the public about what us kids went through.”
Mr Holden said he had had shoulder surgery, a knee reconstruction and a back operation from the numerous bashings he endured at Queensland’s Westbrook Farm Home for Boys in the early 1960s.
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