Analysis - What did these places look like - the endless corridors, the sloppy food? This week, more than 30 years on, some welcome specifics may appear in the public record, David Cohen writes.
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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