NEW ZEALAND
Stuff.co.nz
September 21, 2020
By Edward Gay
A survivor of child abuse in state care says he believes a housemaster who abused him was allowed to “quietly slip away” and reoffend.
Survivors are giving evidence to the Royal Commission of inquiry into abuse in care about their struggles to get redress.
Keith Wiffin was made a ward of the state at the age of 11, following the death of his father.
“My mother signed the document thinking that I’d be cared and nurtured for. The complete opposite happened,” he told the commission in Auckland on Monday.
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