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A video snippet of child abuse history sanctioned & perpetrated by the West Australian Dept for Community Welfare. (now Child Protection). Until the mid-1980s, the Department for Child Protection operated various gulag-grade boys institutions across Perth. The worse of these being Riverbank Treatment Centre for Boys and Hillston Anglican Farm for Boys. The so called 'welfare staff' managing these institutions were slyly known as "Group Workers". The cells housing the children were known as "cabins". HILLSTON ANGLICAN FARM FOR BOYS (Age range 10 - 17 years) Hillston was originally built by the Anglican church circa 1950s as a boot camp / farm for delinquent and homeless boys. In the 1960s the West Australian Government (Child Welfare) assumed control to essentially maintain the boot camp / borstal function. Welfare modified Hillston to a minimum security jail, where boys as young as 10 years were released from a cell in the morning to endure a regimental program until 8.30 in the evening when they would be returned to their cell. Cells (housed in 3 corridors - Raven, Falcon & Eagle) were furnished only with mattress and bedding. None of the cells were equipped with toilets - boys who requested toilet access during the 10 hour nightly lock down did so at risk of being punished. To signal a toilet request during nights, boys had to slide the end of their towel under the cell door and wait until the towel's edge was spotted by a Group Worker. Typical forms of abuse included ...