Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Australian National Office

Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital: Shock therapy like ‘state organs of terror’, inquiry told

By Andrew McRae, Radio New Zealand, 17 June 2021

The electroshock of children and adolescents at Lake Alice psychiatric hospital in New Zealand has been likened to the same tactics used by the Nazi’s secret police, the Gestapo.

Children were also given high doses of psychiatric drugs and sexually abused.

 

Read the full article here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/444911/lake-alice-psychiatric-hospital-shock-therapy-like-state-organs-of-terror-inquiry-told