NORTHERN IRELAND
Newstalk (New Zealand)
By: AAP, International News | Tuesday September 2 2014
Horrific details have been given to a public hearing in Northern Ireland about children in institutions who were exported to Australia before and after World War II.
Some were as young as five, and many suffered grave sexual and physical abuse in Australia.
A lawyer has told the inquiry in some cases parental consent was not sought, migrants were separated from siblings and some deprived of their real identities by the withholding of birth certificates.
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