AUSTRALIA
The Australian
OCTOBER 01, 2014
Amos Aikman
Northern Correspondent
Darwin
FORMER residents of a Darwin missionary home where Stolen Generation and other children were allegedly viciously sexually abused will try for the third time to get justice by asking police to lay fresh charges against one of their accused tormentors, convicted pedophile Donald Henderson.
A small group, including people who recently gave evidence to Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, left hearings in Darwin this morning and marched to a nearby police station, where they asked officers to take statements reopen investigations.
The commission has heard graphic accounts from former residents who say they were beaten, chained and raped by some of the missionaries who ran the Retta Dixon Home inside Darwin’s Bagot Aboriginal reserve between 1946 and 1980.
Mr Henderson was twice prosecuted for allegedly sexually abusing children at the RDH, first in 1975 and then again in 2002. At one stage he faced more than 80 charges, but both cases collapsed before they got to trial. In 1984 he pleaded guilty to two counts of indecently assaulting young boys at a Darwin swimming pool.
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