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December 18, 2012

BAYSWATER Boys’ Home was a paedophiles’ paradise, with several unexplained deaths and missing boys, and others lent to outside paedophiles, a leading abuse lawyer said on Monday.

Angela Sdrinis – whose firm has represented more than 1000 wards of state, including 137 from Bayswater – said systemic abuse by Salvation Army staff was so severe that in some cases boys were killed or allowed to die from their injuries.

”I believe that children may well have been killed or at least allowed to die. Children as young as eight were allowed to abscond, with no efforts made to find them or report to the police,” Ms Sdrinis said.

”Many of these children would have had no family and no one to take an interest in their existence. Society regarded these children as worthless, and these attitudes were mirrored by police.” The deaths of such children may well not have been investigated, she said…