Scars not visible : Woman describes horrific abuse at hands of parents
8 May, 2021 07:24 PM
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Loretta Ryder said no one ever believed her when she reported her parents abuse Photo / RNZ / Andrew McRae
Loretta Ryder said no one ever believed her when she reported her parents abuse Photo / RNZ / Andrew McRae
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This story discusses graphic details of sexual and physical abuse After all the wrong done to me in my youth it has left me with scars that are not visible to the naked eye.
The parting words of Loretta Ryder given to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care on Friday.
When her parents split up she had to take over her mother s role. In every aspect of a mother, a wife or whatever the f he called it, meaning that he sexually abused me first by just touching, doing that sort of shit to me. I knew, even as a kid that that shouldn t be happening to me.
She told her mother what her father was doing but she didn t believe her. She beat me to a pulp from head to toe, Ryder said. She said to me if I tell anybody that she would kill me and I had to say that I fell out of a tree playing.
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Warning: This story discusses graphic details of sexual violence.
A woman who was raped by a welfare home staff member and became pregnant has outlined her ordeal before the inquiry into abuse in care.
Neta Kerepeti was 13 when placed in the Bollard Girls Home in Auckland in 1974.
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She came to the attention of the Social Welfare Department at 12 years old.
On one occasion after running away she was picked up by a police officer and raped.
Her ordeal continued in the first foster home she stayed in and then at the Bollard Girls Home.
Warning: This story discusses graphic details of sexual violence.
A woman who was raped by a welfare home staff member and became pregnant has outlined her ordeal before the inquiry into abuse in care.
Neta Kerepeti.
Photo: RNZ
The 59-year-old was first sexually abused by her father when she was about 7.
She came to the attention of the Social Welfare Department at 12 years old.
On one occasion after running away she was picked up by a police officer and raped.
Her ordeal continued in the first foster home she stayed in and then at the Bollard Girls Home.
The first humiliation was the mandatory internal examination by a doctor checking for sexually transmitted diseases.