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Stolen Generation children in Darwin to detail ‘sexual abuse, emotional deprivation’ at royal commission
ABC
BY RUBY JONES
September 21, 2014
Stolen Generation children who say they were sexually abused at a Darwin boarding school will recall their experiences before the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Eighteen witnesses are expected to testify over two weeks of public hearings in the Northern Territory, including nine former residents of the Retta Dixon Home.
The details of their abuse will shock many, according to former resident of the home Barbara Cummings.
“You know this is our home town and people never really, I don’t think, realised the horrors that some of these children endured,” she said.
“It was all part of that White Australia policy. It was a case of collect all illegitimate part-Aboriginal children, and remove them for the purpose of education.
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