AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Aboriginal children in care at the Retta Dixon Home were flogged with belt buckles, sexually abused in cars and chained up in bed ‘like a dog’, a royal commission has heard.
Lorna Cubillo, now 78, was born at Banka Banka Station in Central Australia and was taken away from her family in 1947, when she was aged about eight.
She lived at the home, for Aboriginal children as well as some unmarried mothers, until she was about 16.
One of the girls in her dormitory used to have fits ‘and was chained up with a dog chain to her bed’, Ms Cubillo told the commission sitting in Darwin on Monday.
‘She was fed with an enamel plate and cup, just like a dog, and often had bad chafing around her ankle where the chain would rub.’
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