A volunteer researcher who worked tirelessly for more than 40 years to bring to light the abuse at Lake Alice hopes the victims will finally get justice.
The Royal Commission's Abuse in Care inquiry has recognised torture was carried out in the adolescent unit at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s.
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A former patient of the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's child unit will ask the United Nations to come to New Zealand to investigate the government's response to a ruling that he was tortured.