AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
A girl was gang raped at a central Queensland orphanage and gave birth to a child when she was 14, a national inquiry has heard.
A woman made the claims at a public hearing of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in Rockhampton on Wednesday.
The inquiry is investigating experiences of children at the Neerkol orphanage near Rockhampton between 1940 and 1975.
The woman, referred to as AYL, said she was 10 when she was sent to Neerkol in 1961.
There, she said, she was routinely raped by a male employee from 1963 and in claims aired publicly for the first time said on one occasion the man and two other employees bound, gagged and raped her at the orphanage.
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