NEW ZEALAND
New Zealand Herald
By Chris Morris
Victims of historic abuse in state care are fighting back, demanding justice – in cash and apologies – to help rebuild broken lives. But some are going further.
Darryl Smith says ”blood money” is not enough to rebuild a life destroyed by sexual abuse in two countries.
The Dunedin man spent more than a decade in state care, in New Zealand and Australia, beginning as a 7-year-old boy in the early 1970s.
It was an experience that exposed him to sexual predators at one institution after another, including two run by the same Catholic order – the Brothers Hospitallers of St John of God.
And, despite receiving payouts and apologies on both sides of the Tasman, Smith says it is not enough.
The 53-year-old wants justice in the form of a national inquiry and public apology from the New Zealand Government.
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