'"Girls like you ... " How the state of Victoria used to 'care' for its most vulnerable! Several months before the Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse commenced a public hearing on Victorian
state-run youth training centres, a woman emailed me.
Her message was a single stark line: 'The place still makes my heart race when I think of the time spent there.' She was referring to Winlaton, the institution purpose-built in 1956 to hold teenage girls on remand or serving sentences.
http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=45429#.VepI7PQUiUl
Her message was a single stark line: 'The place still makes my heart race when I think of the time spent there.' She was referring to Winlaton, the institution purpose-built in 1956 to hold teenage girls on remand or serving sentences.
http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=45429#.VepI7PQUiUl