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With the support and encouragement of organisations such as the Salvation Army and Barnardo’s, children were removed from their familes – often having been told that their parents had died – and sent thousands of miles away to a life of starvation, slave labour and sexual abuse. Beatings with straps, canes and even cricket bats were common as was sexual assault. In some Christian Brothers institutes, small boys were forced into bestial acts.

Australian Prime Minister to apologise for care home abuse of British children – Times Online