Child Abuse Inquiry to hear evidence against 7 Scottish boarding schools in 2020

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has announced it will hold hearings into abuse allegations in boarding schools in summer next year.

Chairwoman Lady Smith urged anyone with evidence to get in touch with the inquiry, even if they have already spoken to police or been involved in other investigations.

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Report: China’s Separation of Uyghur Children from Families a “Cultural Genocide”

In China, a new report by the BBC found evidence that authorities are systematically taking Muslim children—many of them from the Uyghur community—from their families, in the far western region of Xinjiang. According to the report, China is rushing to build boarding schools where children are deliberately removed from their language and culture. Meanwhile, an estimated 1 million adults from the Uyghur community are being imprisoned in camps that China claims are “vocational training centers” designed to combat extremism. Many of the children who have detained parents or other family members are more vulnerable to removal. The author of the report concludes that “the evidence points to what we must call cultural genocide.”

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'Dawnland' documents untold story of Native American child removal in the U.S.

“Dawnland,” a documentary which will begin streaming Nov. 6, follows the first government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission in the U.S. as Maine investigates the devastating impacts of Native American child removal.

“Dawnland” is premiering on the PBS series Independent Lens, as part of November Native American Heritage Month programming.

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The painful story of one of Maine’s darkest chapters

Less than fifty years ago, one in four Native American children lived away from their families. They were in boarding schools or foster care or adoptive homes, all because the government had removed those kids from their relatives.

Sound like the type of horror story that happens somewhere else? Unfortunately, it isn’t. It happened in Maine, and the new documentary “Dawnland” examines the deep wounds the policy inflicted and the state’s effort to begin to bring some healing through the creation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The film will air nationwide on public television on November 5 and be screened at the University of Southern Maine on November 16. Ben Pender-Cudlip co-directed “Dawnland” and talked to 207 about the story it tells.

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AN UNTOLD NUMBER OF INDIGENOUS CHILDREN DISAPPEARED AT U.S. BOARDING SCHOOLS. TRIBAL NATIONS ARE RAISING THE STAKES IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS.

WHEN YUFNA SOLDIER WOLF was a kid, she was made well aware of why her family members only spoke English, and why they dressed the way they did. Her grandfather and other elders used to recount their experiences at boarding schools, where the government sent hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children, from nearly every Indigenous nation within U.S. borders, to unlearn their languages and cultures. “A lot of them were physically abused, verbally abused, sexually abused,” she said.

At the center of the stories were the children who never came home from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where her grandfather was a student. “My grandpa used to say, ‘Don’t forget these children. Don’t forget my brother — he’s still buried there,’” Soldier Wolf said. She promised that she would remember.

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Government Boarding Schools Once Separated Native American Children From Families

In 1879, U.S. cavalry captain Richard Henry Pratt opened a boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. But it wasn’t the kind of boarding school that rich parents send their children to. Rather, the Carlisle Indian Industrial School was a government-backed institution that forcibly separated Native American children from their parents in order to, as Pratt put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.”

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'We are deeply sorry' - boarding schools apologise for child abuse

Boarding schools must correct "the wrongs of the past" and create "obstructive obstacles" to deter potential abusers, headteachers have been told today.

Martin Reader, the chair of the Boarding Schools Association (BSA), is today set to apologise for the abuse suffered by former pupils, on behalf of his organisation's members.

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Daruk Training School: Alleged sex abuse of young boys 'nothing short of horrific', police say

The experiences allegedly inflicted upon young boys at a former Sydney boys' home were "nothing short of horrific", police said while revealing the first arrest of their investigation.

Police say 80 alleged victims have come forward about historical child sex abuse at the Daruk Training School in Penrith in the late 1970s.

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• Man arrested over ‘horrific’ boys’ home abuse

They say they suffered ‘cruel and sadistic’ abuse as kids at Ontario training schools — and the government paid them to keep quiet

The Ontario government has secretly settled hundreds of lawsuits alleging historic sexual, physical and emotional abuse by teachers and staff at provincially run schools for troubled youth, a Toronto Star investigation has found.

Staff and teachers were accused of sodomizing students, forcing them to perform oral sex, and pushing them to engage in "scrambles," a sort of fight club where students were encouraged to beat one another.

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Canada's Trudeau Apologises For Boarding School Abuse

Justin Trudeau has apologised to hundreds of indigenous peoples in Canada who were forcibly placed into a system of boarding schools that were rife with abuse, but some local leaders say the prime minister's apology does not go far enough.

Trudeau apologised to the indigenous students who attended residential schools in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on Canada's east coast, on Friday morning.

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LK Report for 8/7/17 - The Dog Ate The Foster Kid!

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The children died around 135 years ago while they attended a government school in Pennsylvania.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A University of Florida study is among the first to evaluate whether a child’s age at the time of an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis influences treatment and raises numerous questions about why young children with ADHD are being heavily medicated.

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The tragic death of an 8-year-old girl in the city of Malang, East Java, is being widely covered in the Indonesian media today due to the shocking nature of her death – she was reportedly killed by her foster family’s pit bull.

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HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Hillsborough County is taking a bold new step in reforming its juvenile justice system.

Instead of being arrested, juveniles caught committing most misdemeanors will now be a given a civil citation.

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A California mother says her children were taken from her and placed in foster care for months, all because of a perfectly ordinary toddler tantrum.

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A lost tribe’: Child welfare system accused of repeating residential school history

Elders from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in north-western Ontario remember the bus that drove around their reserve picking up children and shuttling them to a waiting plane for a 345 kilometre flight north to Sandy Lake, a remote community with no outside road link, except for ice roads built on frozen lakes and rivers during the winter.

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Sheriff Babeu repeatedly denied having knowledge of widespread abuse at boarding school

Sheriff Babeu repeatedly denied having knowledge of widespread abuse at boarding school

Sheriff Paul Babeu repeatedly denied any knowledge or awareness of the mistreatment of students at a controversial Massachusetts therapeutic boarding school.