Carers knew of abuse in home: inquiry

CARERS at a home for Aboriginal children knew and did nothing for years as their colleague sexually abused their charges, an inquiry has heard.

An inquiry has heard carers at a home for Aboriginal children knew their colleagues abused children.

CARERS at a home for Aboriginal children knew and did nothing for years as their colleague sexually abused their charges, a royal commission has heard.

FORMER residents of the Retta Dixon home for mixed-race indigenous children in the Northern Territory said no authority could be trusted with allegations that house parent Donald Henderson had molested them.