RAY Leary and his brother Ken are “forgotten Australians”.
They’re part of a generation of children — approximately half a million boys and girls — removed from their homes by the police and courts and institutionalised between the 1920s and 80s, where an overwhelming number of children suffered physical, mental and sexual abuse at the hands of their supposed carers.
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/royal-commission-into-child-abuse-forgotten-australians-call-for-day-of-recognition/news-story/ccff8cca899f7d351fbbc66f6c6c2357
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/royal-commission-into-child-abuse-forgotten-australians-call-for-day-of-recognition/news-story/ccff8cca899f7d351fbbc66f6c6c2357