Monday 20 November 2017

Child abuse survivor reveals horrific treatment at mental health unit being investigated by police

Child abuse survivor reveals horrific treatment at mental health unit being investigated by police Exclusive: Man describes beatings and forced sedation at Hill End Hospital Adolescent Unit.

“We were beaten, we were punched, we were put in headlocks, we had our heads rammed into doors…I was one of the lucky ones because I wasn’t raped, but I know of other people who were.”

Alan was 11 years old when he was taken into Hill End Hospital Adolescent Unit in St Albans – a place where he was meant to be cared for alongside other vulnerable children.

It was 1993 and he had been “naughty”, running away from the children’s homes and care centres social services shifted him between.

Hill End was supposed to treat teenagers with psychiatric illnesses, but by the time Alan arrived it had become what he called “dumping ground” for children for whom the NHS and local authorities had run out of other ideas. The Independent

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