Where exactly is a major enquiry into the sexual abuse of children taking place? O yes, in the UK. It started today. It's about 150,000 children deported to Australia after the second world war and ruthlessly exploited sexually and for manual labour. The Catholic Church is mired in this scandal, as are the UK and Australian governments. Children who had families in the UK were sent away so that they could have 'a better life.' Orphan children with no families to care for them were sent away as a matter of course. All these children have one thing in common: they were the offspring of the poor. And nobody gave a rat's *rse what happened to them.
Not that you would notice the enquiry has started in most of the media. It's not on the BBC or ITN news websites at all. It's item 11 on the C4 news page. The only outlet featuring the enquiry in any depth is - hold your breath - Sky: http://news.sky.com/story/children-forced-to-leave-uk-under-migrant-scheme-suffered-widespread-sex-abuse-10783953
I have friends on Facebook who tell me that child sexual abuse has been rife among what they call 'the ruling classes' for generations. I have no idea if that's true. I did have a Facebook friend who was handed over in the late 1950s to the care of Nazareth House. Two of her brothers stayed with their father after their mother died. Two of her older sisters went to a different section of Nazareth House from her. One sister was adopted by a family member. This poor wee soul was left at the age of 6 in a dormitory full of strangers. Her sisters didn't bother with her - probably too busy trying to save themselves. And her wider family never came near her. Poor woman, she killed herself at the age of 54.
I don't know if this treatment was common. It was certainly still going on into the 1970s.
Some publicity would be welcome.
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