Dr. Oliver Sutherland discovers disturbing cases of abused children in state care, including imprisonment and torture of children as young as nine. Fighting a racist system, the insect scientist stands up to expose abuse in the notorious Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital, but will justice ever be served? Made with funding from NZ on Air.
A former lead psychiatrist at Lake Alice hospital - who was accused of torturing children at the facility in the 1970s - has died.
Dr Selwyn Leeks was 92.
Leeks was accused of using electric shocks and paralysing drugs to punish patients at the Lake Alicechild and adolescent unit, which operated near Marton.
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into abuse in state care last year heard testimony about this from former patients, as well as sexual assaults and rapes by staff members and other patients, but Leeks never faced charges after police investigations in the late 1970s and early 2000s.
