The Lost Children After Many Years, Painful, Emotional Reunions
Not only had these lost children been shipped 12,000 miles from Britain
to the bottom of the world. Not only had they been exploited and abused.
They had been deceived. They weren't orphans. They had families
back in Britain, families which had dropped them off at institutions
with every intention of getting them back. When Tony Jones discovered that his mother was still alive in England, he was shocked: "All them years, and they didn't even tell me I had a family?" he says. Too
poor to care for him, Maud Jones had placed Tony in a children's home
in England after she divorced his father. She never gave consent for
Tony to be shipped to Australia. She was never even asked.
