AUSTRALIA
The Morning Bulletin
Austin King | 15th Apr 2015
FORMER Neerkol Orphanage resident Mary Adams could never be whole again.
The “cracks” of severe trauma from her childhood, when she was a resident at St Joseph’s Orphanage in Neerkol, prevented her from being so.
Those cracks were the permanent scars she received, from the physical, sexual and psychological abuse, at the orphanage between the 1950s and 1960s.
Mary, 64, along with her brother and sister, were placed there in 1951 after her mother fell into financial difficulties.
During her moving testimony at yesterday’s Royal Commission hearing into Neerkol, Mary said she was two years old and her sister about four when they were placed into the care of the Sisters of Mercy.
She was placed in a nursery and moved to the “big girls’ dormitory” when she turned five years old.
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