ROSA WOODS/STUFF
Grant West, a survivor of child sexual abuse, has since gone on to become the face of sexual abuse survivors and started the idea of tying ribbons to church fences.
GRAPHIC CONTENT: Grant West sobbed in his cell-like room. Arthur Taylor was a bright kid and couldn’t figure out what he was doing there. Keith Wiffin met violence before he even arrived. They were boys – aged 10, 11 and 11 respectively – on their first days inside the now-infamous Epuni Boys’ Home in Lower Hutt, north of Wellington. Epuni Boys’ Home, situated on 441 Riverside Dr in Lower Hutt, opened in 1959. Over the next 32 years, there were about 5000 admissions, some of them boys who returned a number of times.