- Staff from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists have apologised in person to survivors of Lake Alice’s Child and Adolescent Unit.
- The apology follows a Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse at the unit at from 1972 until 1980, which found children were subjected to torture, abuse and neglect.
- The college has acknowledged mistakes and expressed a commitment to ensuring the atrocities never happen again.
Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry apology to survivors of psychiatric ill-treatment and torture at Lake Alice hospital
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One response to “Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry apology to survivors of psychiatric ill-treatment and torture at Lake Alice hospital”
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When I was young my dear mother was put into Sunnyside Mental Hospital in Lincoln Road Christchurch where she was given Electric Shock Treatment! You don’t hear anyone talking about this Barbaric Treatment!
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