This Story Half way down the page: At 91, Mary Heather Lane is one of the oldest to attend a private session of the royal commission. The
Perth resident was originally from New South Wales and lived in two
Catholic orphanages in Sydney, where she was placed by her mother from
the age of seven.
They included Mater Dei orphanage at Narellan in the city's south-west and St Magdalen's Retreat at Tempe, where she says she "worked all day every day", except Sunday, in the laundry. She says she was not sexually abused but was subjected to routine physical beatings. She describes being whipped with a bamboo cane "for the least little thing" and on all parts of her body.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/child-abuse-victims-share-their-stories-in-private-hearings/5438966
They included Mater Dei orphanage at Narellan in the city's south-west and St Magdalen's Retreat at Tempe, where she says she "worked all day every day", except Sunday, in the laundry. She says she was not sexually abused but was subjected to routine physical beatings. She describes being whipped with a bamboo cane "for the least little thing" and on all parts of her body.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-09/child-abuse-victims-share-their-stories-in-private-hearings/5438966
