AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail (UK)
AAP
Actor Jack Charles says he was bashed, sexually abused and regarded as “item of interest” during his time in a Salvation Army boys’ home in Melbourne.
Mr Charles has told a royal commission that he was put in the Box Hill home as a “social experiment” as one of the stolen generation who was taken from his mother when he was four months old.
“I certainly think the home whitewashed me,” he said.
“I left Box Hill a devout Methodist and without a sense of my Aboriginality.”
Mr Charles said staff members at Box Hill hit boys in the face with a closed fist for punishment and that he was sexually abused by both staff and other boys.
He said one staff member abused him at least 20 times, possibly more, while certain boys would “regularly have their way with me”.
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