A Hunter woman is probably the oldest Australian to register under the National Redress Scheme

By Joanne McCarthy
Updated February 18 2020 - 6:44pm, first published July 21 2018 - 6:00am
Accounts: Possibly the oldest person in Australia to seek redress under the National Redress Scheme for suvivors of institutional child sexual abuse is a Hunter woman, 96.
Picture: Marina Neil.
Accounts: Possibly the oldest person in Australia to seek redress under the National Redress Scheme for suvivors of institutional child sexual abuse is a Hunter woman, 96. Picture: Marina Neil.

MARY*, was six years old when her parents abandoned her and her four siblings in 1927 and she was sent to live in a Catholic orphanage with her sister.

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