NEW ZEALAND
Otago Daily Times

By Chris Morris

Victims of historic abuse in state care are fighting back, demanding justice — in cash and apologies — to help rebuild broken lives. But some are going further. In the second part of ODT Insight’s special investigation, Chris Morris tells Darryl Smith’s story.

Darryl Smith says ”blood money” is not enough to rebuild a life destroyed by sexual abuse in two countries.The Dunedin man spent more than a decade in state care, in New Zealand and Australia, beginning as a 7-year-old boy in the early 1970s.

It was an experience that exposed him to sexual predators at one institution after another, including two run by the same Catholic order – the Brothers Hospitallers of St John of God.

And, despite receiving payouts and apologies on both sides of the Tasman, Mr Smith says it is not enough.

He wants justice in…