The children were sent very often without their parents’ knowledge, let
alone permission. They were sent to work and to be mistreated, and,
above all, to be forgotten. Well within living memory, the British state, alongside charities and
churches, was engaged in the mass abuse of children.
In what was virtually a modern system of transportation – but without even the semblance of justice in those older cases of the deportation of convicts – thousands of children were in effect removed unlawfully from the UK to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The final destination of the White Commonwealth dominions added a little racism to the toxic mix, and these children were indeed treated little better than livestock.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-deportation-australia-victims-living-memory-a7602551.html
In what was virtually a modern system of transportation – but without even the semblance of justice in those older cases of the deportation of convicts – thousands of children were in effect removed unlawfully from the UK to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). The final destination of the White Commonwealth dominions added a little racism to the toxic mix, and these children were indeed treated little better than livestock.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/child-sex-abuse-inquiry-deportation-australia-victims-living-memory-a7602551.html