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Children subjected to ‘extreme violence and sadism’ during
decades of hidden abuse in detention centres, inquiry finds
Children faced repercussions for reporting abuse while
perpetrators ‘acted with impunity’ in 1970s and 1980s
Lizzie Dearden Home Affairs Correspondent
1 hour ago
"Children detained for minor misdemeanours were subjected to “extreme violence and sadism” over decades of hidden abuse, a report has revealed.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found that some victims tried to kill themselves in youth detention centres, while the perpetrators “acted with impunity”.
A report released on Thursday said the abuse left survivors with a “life sentence” of mental health issues and struggles with substance abuse and unemployment.
IICSA’s Truth Project heard evidence from the 1950s to the modern day, but the majority of people who said they were sexually abused by staff members were detained in the 1970s and 1980s.
Numerous men who were jailed as children during the period previously told The Independent of beatings, humiliation and sexual assault, with one man comparing his experience to a “sadistic, brutal concentration camp”."
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