Children speaking from inside Australia’s detention centres.

These are innocent children... like children before them living in catholic orphanages... and state homes... they live their lives... in prison of their Souls... never to have a happy childhood... No childhood at all... they are treated worst than prisoners... criminals... NOT A SMILL ON THEIR FACES... Ann

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Powerful proof that children don’t belong in detention. “I have never seen happiness in my life,” one 17-year-old says. “I feel like I’m in prison. I am so bored and sometimes I think of killing myself,” a 12-year-old girl says.

“My father and brother were killed. I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t have to be,” an unaccompanied child adds. These are not fictional statements. These are the real words from children living in immigration detention centres under the control of the Australian government.

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/08/24/church-struggled-deal-abuse-clergy-bishop