UNITED KINGDOM
Heart
19th July 2016, 00:01
Teresa Cooper, who has waived her right to anonymity, says she was regularly drugged and sexually abused during the time she was at Kendall House and has been campaigning for years for the truth about what happened there to come to light.
Last week an independent review said the Church of England girls home was a “toxic and destructive” environment, and revealed the scale of sexual abuse, ill-treatment and physical abuse at the site between 1967 and 1986.
It disclosed how girls as young as 11 were routinely, and often without medical assessment, given powerful anti-depressants, sedatives and anti-psychotic drugs.
Those that resisted, challenged or overcame the drugs’ effects faced sanctions, including being locked alone in a room for days on end or emotionally abused.
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