AUSTRALIA
The Australian
OCTOBER 02, 2014
Amos Aikman
Northern Correspondent
Darwin
FORMER residents of a Darwin missionary home where Stolen Generations and other children were allegedly serially sexually abused have threatened demonstrations if the site is not given to them and turned into a community centre and a “sea of flowers”.
A group marched on a Darwin police station yesterday demanding action against convicted pedophile Donald Henderson, who a royal commission has heard molested children at the Retta Dixon Home in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse concluded yesterday after nearly two weeks of hearings into alleged abuse at the home operated by Australian Indigenous Ministries inside Darwin’s Bagot Aboriginal reserve.
The commission heard children were routinely beaten, chained up and subjected to shocking violations, including being raped repeatedly, being rubbed with feces and forced to eat their own vomit.
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