AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Dr Tom Calma was told of an abuse allegation at Retta Dixon House in Darwin, decades ago, the Child Sex Abuse Royal Commission has been told.
Witness AKV – going under a pseudonym, with a protected identity – said he spoke to Mr Calma when he was a welfare offices.
The witness, a 54-year-old Eastern Arrente man from Alice Springs said he was sexually assaulted twice, and we witnessed horrific abuse.
‘There were times my sister would be tied up to the clothesline,’ AKV said.
‘And have faeces rubbed in her face.
‘(House parent) Henderson would regularly grove me in a sexual way.
‘He really seemed to have a thing for dark-skinned boys … Henderson’s favourite place for abusing boys was in the chook pen.’
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