AUSTRALIA
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BY ANNETTE BLACKWELL –
November 18, 2013
Children were beaten until they were bloodied and forced into sex with older residents at a NSW orphanage run by the Anglican church, the royal commission has heard.
On an emotional day at the commission, one former resident of the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore described himself and other abuse victims as the “walking dead”, while those who took their own lives are the lucky ones.
Other children, some as young as five, were allegedly forced to have oral sex with older residents.
The national royal commission into institutional responses to child sex is hearing from people who were residents at the Lismore home in the Anglican diocese of Grafton between 1944 and 1985.
In a tearful voice, a witness called CK, who was placed in the home aged three with his six-year-old brother in 1949, told how his older sibling used to protect him until he was moved to another home when CK was eight.
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