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Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital: Shock therapy like state organs of terror , treatment likened to Gestapo, inquiry told
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Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital: Shock therapy like state organs of terror , inquiry told
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Hakeagapuletama Halo had 10 electric shock treatments at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital
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The hearing over the next two weeks is examining how children, some as young as eight were given electroconvulsive therapy, not for any medical reason, but mainly as a punishment and often without anaesthetic.
Between 1972 and 1978, it is estimated up to 300 young people went through the Child and Adolescent Unit at Lake Alice.
Inquiry lawyer Andrew Molloy said the figure could be at least 100 higher because records have never been found. Children were subjected to abuse, including sexual abuse while at the unit. Some staff were among the perpetrators, sometimes the children fell victims to older and bigger children, and sometimes to adults housed at the main Lake Alice Hospital.
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Maureen Taru testified before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care at a public hearing in Auckland on Wednesday.
A young girl put into state care 60 years ago after she complained of being abused at home was locked alone in a cell for months until she eventually ended up in a psychiatric hospital. Maureen Taru, now 70, revealed the horrific abuse she suffered while she was in state care during her teenage years as she testified before the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care. Taru grew up in a dysfunctional household in Levin, where she was sexually abused by her much older half-brother. Her mother was aware of the abuse, but told her it was something “that happens in every household”.
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