Summary
The demons of Lake Alice still haunt the people who lost their childhoods there.
Lee Matthews talks to a survivor.See the full content of this document
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Raped and Tortured: A New Zealand Childhood
"We were doomed people in Lake Alice because nobody helped us. We soon learned not to complain. We knew nobody would listen."
Kevin Banks is a survivor. From age 13 to 16, he says he was raped and tortured. He was also injected with gut-wrenchingly painful paraldehyde and put through unmodified electroconvulsive treatment--shock treatment with no anaesthetic.Routinely. To punish him. To modify his behaviour, because he seemed to live in a world of his own.T...See the full content of this document
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