Gwyneth Beard, also known as Piwi is 59 and went into care from the age of 11.
Gwyneth Beard.
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Most of the time was spent at the Strathmore Girls Home in Christchurch, but she also spent some time in the Kingslea Home in the same city and a short time at Weymouth in Auckland.
She ended up in care after running away from home.
She describes her time in the secure unit at Strathmore as incarceration. It was like I have been locked up. I was only a child. I look out at my mokos now and wonder if anyone locked my mokos up at that age. There s no nationality behind it, that you should be locking children up.
Abuse in state care: Survivor calls her time at Strathmore Girls Home as incarceration
6 May, 2021 08:21 PM
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Gwyneth Beard, also known as Piwi, is 59 and went into care from the age of 11.
Most of the time was spent at the Strathmore Girls Home in Christchurch, but she also spent some time in the Kingslea Home in the same city and a short time at Weymouth in Auckland.
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Yesterday she gave evidence before the Abuse in State Residential Homes hearing.
She describes her time in the secure unit at Strathmore as incarceration.