Beaten, raped, starved by the church – an Australian story

AUSTRALIA
Perth Now

CANDACE SUTTON
From: news.com.au
November 18, 2013

BEATEN till they bled.

Starved. Sexually abused. Locked in cupboards.

Their faces rubbed in their own faeces and urine.

And then the ministers came over from the neighbouring church and the sexual abuse began.

This was not some overseas house of horrors, but Australia; the lush green hills and subtropical rainforest of northern NSW, where the Anglican Church of Australia carried out the abuse of hundreds of children.

This is the story of how the Church of England North Coast Children’s Home held a dark secret for decades.

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