AUSTRALIA
ABC – Indigenous
By Xavier La Canna
Updated September 22, 2014
Children were “chained like dogs” and sexually assaulted at a government-run home for Aboriginal children in Darwin, a child sex abuse inquiry has heard.
A former resident of the Retta Dixon home in Darwin told the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of vicious beatings at the facility.
Lorna Cubillo was taken from her family and moved to the Retta Dixon home around 1946 at the age of seven or eight.
Retta Dixon was a home run by the NT government, which commissioned the Aborigines Inland Mission – an interdenominational Christian group now known as the Australian Indigenous Ministries – to operate the home from 1946 until 1980.
Ms Cubillo told the hearing she was physically and sexually abused by house parent Desmond Walter while at Retta Dixon.
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