AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Xavier La Canna
Updated 24 Sep 2014
A woman who gave evidence about abuse at a government-run home for Aboriginal children in Darwin says the alleged perpetrators should be forced to appear at a royal commission.
Sandra Kitching, 64, visited the site of the former Retta Dixon home on Wednesday, along with the commissioners presiding over the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Ms Kitching said she refused to visit parts of the site that still harboured “bad spirits”, but she wanted to pay her respects to those who died at Retta Dixon.
She said it was hard listening to some of the testimony given at the royal commission and she thought some of the alleged perpetrators were getting off too easily.
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