AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Wednesday 1 October 2014
Former residents of a home for Indigenous children that has been at the centre of recent hearings of the royal commission into child sexual abuse have marched on a Darwin police station to demand charges be laid against an alleged abuser.
The royal commission has wrapped up after almost two weeks of hearings in Darwin about the Retta Dixon home, which housed children from 1946 until 1980.
Nine former residents gave harrowing evidence of physical, emotional and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of carers.
This included being raped and molested, belted until they bled, force-fed until they vomited, and chained to their beds.
Former house parent Donald Henderson was twice committed to stand trial for sexual abuse, in 1976 and 2002, but both times prosecutors dropped the charges over a lack of evidence.
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