AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By NICOLE LOW FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA
A man haunted by the sexual and physical abuse he allegedly suffered at the hands of his adoptive father at a home for Aboriginal children in the 1960s has spoken out for the first time.
John Gordon was 10-years-old when he was adopted by Donald Henderson and his wife at Retta Dixon Home in Darwin, the ABC reports.
From 1964 to 1975, the Hendersons worked at the government-funded, religious home in Darwin where Mr Gordon had lived since he was removed from his family as a baby as part of the Stolen Generation period.
Mr Gordon told the ABC he felt ‘special’ and ‘chosen’ when they decided to adopt him but his Mr Henderson turned his life into a nightmare by allegedly molesting and beating him.
‘I remember when he used to give me beatings. It wasn’t just a slap on the ass… he’d flog me that hard I’d wet myself,’ he said.
‘I still have dreams about it. The last time I had dreams like that I woke up the whole house screaming.’
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