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An inquiry into historic abuse must consider the 200 Scottish youngsters who were amongst the thousands of child migrants abused after being sent to Australia and other Commonwealth nations, Gordon Brown has said.
The former PM said that in some cases, “abuse was piled upon abuse” for those involved in the Child Migrants Programme, which ran from the 1920s to the 1960s.
It saw poor children sent to a ”better life” in Australia and elsewhere, but many of them were physically, emotionally or sexually abused.
Mr Brown said: “Approximate 200 Scots boys and girls were child migrants. The separate Scottish inquiry into sexual exploitation, chaired by Rt Hon Lady Smith, should make this a subject of their investigations.”
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