UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
09 JANUARY 2015
An independent review is to be carried out into a former Church of England-run children’s home following claims that girls were given massive doses of drugs.
The Bishop of Rochester has set up the review into Kendall House in Gravesend, Kent, between 1950 and 1986 – the year it shut.
Established in the 1920s, Kendall House was a home for emotionally-disturbed girls who were mainly placed there by their local authority.
A BBC investigation in 2009 revealed that some girls who were heavily sedated while living at Kendall House in the 1970s and 1980s went on to have children with a range of birth defects.
One former resident, Teresa Cooper, accepted substantial damages from the Church of England in 2010 after alleging she was abused with doses of tranquillisers and other drugs.
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