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15 March 2017

Youth detention royal commission: Don Dale detainee 'denied treatment for broken bone for two days'

A 15-year-old detainee at the Don Dale youth detention centre was denied medical treatment for a broken collarbone for at least two days and guards would not allow him to wear a sling, a royal commission has heard.
In a written statement to the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory, the former detainee, known only as BF, said that in spite of the injury in early 2011 he was told to play sports and later broke his collarbone again.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-14/royal-commission-hears-treatment-for-broken-collarbone-delayed/8351870