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The man, who has anonymity and was referred to as Mr U at today s hearing, was sent to the Moerangi Treks camp while in welfare care.
He said he was randomly punched in the head and verbally abused by some staff members.
After trying to run away he would be made to play what was called crash in the bush , which involved being chased by up to 20 other boys and badly beaten by them when caught, he said.
He was also knocked unconscious. I was cutting firewood, I was hit over the back of the head. I was knocked unconscious and when I woke up I was in a little cabin with a tarp over me.
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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.
Warning: This story discusses details of sexual violence
Where are the Cherries? This was the constant thought going through the mind of a nine-year-old boy who was sent to the adult psychiatric hospital, Cherry Farm.
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Now aged 59, Toni Jarvis has given evidence to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care s inquiry into residential state care.
Adopted at birth, Jarvis was severely physically abused by his adopted father.
Between the ages of seven and eight, he ended up fostered in various family homes before, five days after turning nine, he ended up in Cherry Farm awaiting a placement at Hokio Beach School.
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The investigation by the Royal Commission will examine abuse and neglect of children and young people in residences run by the state, and by independent organisations on behalf of the state.
This includes boys and girls social welfare and family homes, and institutions that provided combined care and protection and youth justice care.
The hearing will hear from survivors of Kohitere Boy s Training Centre, Hokio Beach School, Epuni Boys Home, Ōwairaka Boys Home, Bollard Girls Home, Whakapakiri Youth Trust (Great Barrier Island), Kingslea Girls Homes, Moerangi Treks, and also Family Homes throughout New Zealand.
Sixteen witnesses will give evidence to the Royal Commission on their experiences while in care between 1950 and 1999.