He was caught breaking into a police officer's car. He was drunk. And he was four years old. Aaron* had no memory of the rampage. He only learned of the incident in his mid 40s, from a 1966 newspaper clipping included in thousands of pages documenting his years at Christchurch's Marylands School and other state institutions.
Among the paperwork released to him was confirmation he was given anti-psychotic drugs as a child. Letters exchanged between his father and the Catholic order who ran the boys' boarding school show his family, wanting to bring him home, were convinced to leave him there.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100906878/st-john-of-god-pulled-up-the-draw-bridge-for-marylands-school-abuse-victims-advocates-claim
Among the paperwork released to him was confirmation he was given anti-psychotic drugs as a child. Letters exchanged between his father and the Catholic order who ran the boys' boarding school show his family, wanting to bring him home, were convinced to leave him there.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/100906878/st-john-of-god-pulled-up-the-draw-bridge-for-marylands-school-abuse-victims-advocates-claim