“Being a newcomer to the place, I didn t want to open my mouth, so I just sat there and watched,” he said of the violent boxing matches put on by the staff. Solomon was forbidden from “fraternising” with the children, and told to make them repeat mundane tasks over and over again. Colleagues both good and bad warned him not to speak up about the violence he saw there, including children being “thrashed” inside the secure unit to threaten them against trying to escape the home.
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Tupe Solomon-Tanoa i read out her father’s testimony, helping him to break a life-long silence about the violence he saw.