“We had to go up at feeding times, washing times, but we weren’t allowed cuddle them. We were told, ‘don’t. They’re not yours any more’.”
“The girl who wet the bed and myself had the wet sheet put over our head and were made to stand in the corner for the whole of breakfast. We never got any breakfast either.”, the Journal’s podcast that released its first episode in November. These are the voices silenced for decades, and it is both gruelling and important to hear them.
We already know this story. We know and have known that terrible abuses were carried out behind the high walls of these institutions: we even knew it at the time, as those interviewed make clear. But to hear it in this way, spoken by those who lived it, to hear their anguish and their rage, is to be reminded that we failed and continue to fail them.
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