Greek children in Australia that ended up in orphanages and state institutions during the 50ies, 60ies and 70ies, were sexually exploited from some employees of those institutions according to expat lawyer Angela Sdrinis, who has defended over 700 such individuals over the course of fifteen years.
“Those children.. came out with unhealed wounds. The abuse those children underwent destroyed them forever. Today, decades on, they are standing up for their rights. In many cases, my team and I are the first people they tell everything.”
Earlier on this year Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, apologized to hundreds of thousands of people who had been wrongly taken care of, or abused, within the state institutions, whilst he refered to the loss of these childrens’ years as a “tradegy”.
At least 500.000 “forgotten Australians” had been abused or abandoned in orphanages and institutions for poor children between 1930 and 1970.
Source: ana- mpa
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