The clock ticks loudly on the wall while he talks. While time is meant to heal wounds, it can also bring bad memories back to the surface. "I
have days when I think about it. I'll be out mowing the lawns or
something and it just pops in your mind and you just can't get it out."
For this north Taranaki man, his experience of abuse while in state care at the age of 15 has cast a long, and sometimes ugly, shadow over his life. He admits he pushed the boundaries as a youngster, experimenting with drugs and alcohol and running away from home, but the decision made by his family and social worker to put him into temporary care started him down an even darker path which he still struggled to understand.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/67696158/for-child-abuse-victims-the-hurt-goes-on-into-adulthood
For this north Taranaki man, his experience of abuse while in state care at the age of 15 has cast a long, and sometimes ugly, shadow over his life. He admits he pushed the boundaries as a youngster, experimenting with drugs and alcohol and running away from home, but the decision made by his family and social worker to put him into temporary care started him down an even darker path which he still struggled to understand.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/67696158/for-child-abuse-victims-the-hurt-goes-on-into-adulthood
