Audio analysis and summary of abuse report

Sexual abuse was "endemic" in State-run institutions for boys and children lived in "daily terror" of being beaten over more …

Sexual abuse was "endemic" in State-run institutions for boys and children lived in "daily terror" of being beaten over more than five decades, the long-awaited Commission into Child Abuse report has found.

The report, that runs to thousands of pages, outlined a harrowing account of the emotional, physical and sexual abuse inflicted on young people who attended schools and institutions from 1940 onwards.

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