Social Welfare allowed abusive father to visit daughter, Commission hears

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Known to the Royal Commission as Ms T, she was physically and sexually abused by her father.
Ms T told the inquiry that her father started sexually abusing her at the age of 4 or 5. In later life she discovered he had been abusing her other siblings as well.
At the age of 13, she ran away and told Social Welfare about what was happening at home.
She spoke to a woman at the Lower Hutt office.
''She wouldn't have a bar of it, she wouldn't listen to me, she told me to get the hell out. She said I was a liar.''

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