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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard sexual and physical abuse was both severe and far reaching at a home run by the Anglican Church in northern New South Wales.
The commission this morning began its third round of public hearings, this time to examine the alleged sexual and physical abuse of up to 200 children at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore.
Counsel assisting the commission Simeon Beckett told the opening in Sydney this morning that the hearing will consider what happened at the home and how the Anglican Diocese of Grafton responded to allegations of abuse.
“The conditions for the children in the home were harsh. In at least the 1950s and 60s food and clothing were limited,” he said.
“Former residents have provided accounts to the royal commission that the children were often hungry.
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