UNITED KINGDOM
Gazette Live
BY JAMES CAIN
6 MAR 2017
A former Middlesbrough children’s home resident has told an inquiry how she was sexually abused on board a ship when she was sent to Australia.
The little girl was still under 13 when she emigrated after living at Nazareth House in central Middlesbrough since the age of three.
Now an adult, the victim, who cannot be named, gave evidence to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, set up to investigate how British institutions failed to protect children from abuse.
One of the 13 separate investigations launched by the inquiry, is looking into the British child migration programme which saw more than 130,000 children sent to former British colonies, mainly Australia and Canada, between the 1920s and 1970s.
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