AUSTRALIA
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The head of a religious group running services for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory for 20 years knew nothing of horrendous abuse at one of its homes until a national inquiry was underway.
The conduct of Reverend Trevor Leggott, general director of Australian Indigenous Ministries (AIM) was roundly criticised on Monday by two barristers representing people who were horribly abused at the Retta Dixon home for Aboriginal children in the 1960s and 70s.
The sex abuse royal commission in September uncovered horrendous sexual, psychological and physical abuse of Aboriginal children – some of them very young – at the home.
But Rev Leggott admitted he was not really aware of the abuse until he read witness statements before the commission.
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