Survivors recall being locked in cells, beaten at state-run Hamilton Boys' Home

Ellen O'Dwyer12:25, May 09 2021
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Hamilton Boys' Home was in operation from 1959 to 1990.
The night 13-year-old Daniel Rei arrived at Hamilton Boys’ Home was the first time he thought he was going to die.
He arrived at his room and was covered in a blanket, hit, kicked and punched repeatedly by other boys.
It ended in a black eye, swollen lips, loosened teeth and bruises.
But the beatings were far from over.
“Later I’d find out [the violence] goes on in degrees, there’s kiddy stuff, and then it gets bigger and bigger and bigger,” Rei told the Royal Commission into Abuse in State Care.

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