DENNIS Hayes doubts child sexual abuse victims will ever get over the horror.
The recent public scrutiny of institutionalised child sexual abuse, he said, would at least give them a degree of normality.
A big part of that process was the apology — four years ago tomorrow — from then prime minister Kevin Rudd to the “Forgotten Australians”. These are the roughly 500,000 children who found themselves in orphanages or church-run or state homes between 1930 and 1970.
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The recent public scrutiny of institutionalised child sexual abuse, he said, would at least give them a degree of normality.
A big part of that process was the apology — four years ago tomorrow — from then prime minister Kevin Rudd to the “Forgotten Australians”. These are the roughly 500,000 children who found themselves in orphanages or church-run or state homes between 1930 and 1970.
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