UNITED KINGDOM
BBC News
Girls at a church-run children’s home were routinely drugged, locked up and physically, emotionally and sexually abused, a review has found.
Hundreds of girls were sent to Kendall house in Gravesend in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, before it closed in 1986.
The independent review set up by the Bishop of Rochester said the home was a place where cruelty was normalised.
The Church of England has apologised to girls who were heavily sedated and placed in straitjackets.
‘Cruelty normalised’
In a report the inquiry team said: “The findings are harrowing.”
The home was “a place where control, containment and sometimes cruelty were normalised.”
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