AUSTRALIA
ABC – PM
MARK COLVIN: The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard horrific personal accounts from former residents of the New South Wales North Coast Children’s Home.
The national inquiry is delving into the stories of children who were abused at the Anglican-run children’s home between the 1940s and 1980s and how the Church responded to allegations over the past decade.
Witnesses at the hearings in Sydney today told harrowing tales from the Lismore orphanage of children living in appalling deprivation, accompanied by extreme brutality and ritualised sexual abuse.
Emily Bourke has this report, and a warning that some of the content in this report may distress some listeners.
EMILY BOURKE: The royal commission’s third public hearing has heard of childhoods ruined and adult lives cut short by suicide as result of abuse that occurred in the North Coast Children’s Home which was run by the Anglican Church.
CK: The pain that we have, we will take to the grave. The ones who have suicided, they’re possibly the lucky ones. We’re the living dead that remain.
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