Many thanks to Stuff and Popsock Media, investigative journalist AARON SMALE for all the hard work you have done in order to get THE LAKE series released.
"In 1972, an eleven-year-old boy was abandoned in an adult mental institution, where he was assaulted by staff and other patients, and forced into cruel, experimental behavioural experiments by a respected psychiatrist.
But the fate of Tyrone was no anomaly. Over six years, hundreds of children were subjected to astonishingly brutal treatment at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Facility β at the hands of the very thing that was meant to be looking after them: the New Zealand state."
Lake Alice was a psychiatric hospital between Whanganui and Palmerston North in New Zealand. Lake Alice is effectively isolated as it can be found in the middle of farmland. Nowhere to run. Noone to see. Noone to hear.
Lake Alice was a place for both adults and children with "psychiatric problems" including children with bad behaviour.
It is what qualified, registered and experienced psychiatrists and Lake Alice staff did with children that form the basis of AARON SMALE's series The Lake
Synopsis:
In this seven-part podcast by Stuff and Popsock Media, investigative journalist AARON SMALE cuts through the web of neglect and denial which allowed such an outrage to happen. He talks to survivors of Lake Alice as well as former staff, and goes in search of the monstrous psychiatrist who oversaw the experimental therapies at Lake Alice: Dr Selwyn Leeks.
Listen to the podcast and read the stories, THE LAKE series
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