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>>i was at netherton approved school..dover borstal.and >>the most violent ( by the staff )reading >>recall..please ,if theres some form of comp..for wat >>they put me through gwt in touch..torture/bread and >>water/solitary confinement. get the picture.... > >I think it is unlikely that there would be any form of >compensation. For a start the government didn't keep >indefinite records of young people in approved schools > because most of us had committed no crime. >I tried a few years ago to get something from the >order of priests to which belonged a priest who >regularly visited my approved school in order to >"help" us, and sexually abused myself and others. I >also hoped I might be helped by the nuns who ran the >place. In brief, the offer I got was that they would >pay for my counselling but I had to sign something to >say that I would not speak about my experiences. >Indeed I felt more violated after that encounter - and >it took a year before I knew where I stood - than >beforehand, and I wished I had never raised the >subject. The joke of it is that the priest in >question had been in real trouble for sexual >misdemeanours, it had even got into the papers in >Ireland, so I wasn't telling them anything they didn't >know. >After all that I was left alone with my memories and >the humilitation of having put my hand out and had it >slapped. It took me a long time to get over that. >The Approved School regime was a harsh one.

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