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Performing arts school at centre of child abuse claims stands in disarray, neighbour feels 'crook'
ABC News
BY PAIGE COCKBURN AND KATHLEEN CALDERWOOD
ABOUT AN HOUR AGO (as at 07:46 AEDT 07 February 2018)
‘Knee-high grass, graffiti and half-finished pottery projects — don't forget the wall of clocks.
A peek inside the performing arts school in regional NSW linked to 127 child abuse allegations reveals a building stuck in time, in more ways than one.
Inside one of the rooms, where half-finished pottery projects are littered over tables, several antiquated clocks hang from the wall, their hands not moving.
Seven people linked to the school are behind bars, accused of a long and lurid list of sexual and physical abuse against three boys, all aged under eight.
A neighbour of the school told the ABC he felt sick after learning of the allegations levelled by police yesterday, among the most confronting of which was that the young boys were subjected to "blood rituals".
Police claim blood was taken from the children, who were then forced to drink it.
The accused — four women aged 58, 29, 26 and 20, two men aged 52 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl — are all connected to the regional arts school and intend to plead not guilty.
The group's lawyer, Bryan Wrench, said there was "another side" to this story in court yesterday.‘
Read more at:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-07/performing-arts-school-at-centre-of-child-abuse/9402090
Related:
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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-...ople-linked-to-performing-arts-school/9399192
ABC News
BY PAIGE COCKBURN AND KATHLEEN CALDERWOOD
ABOUT AN HOUR AGO (as at 07:46 AEDT 07 February 2018)
‘Knee-high grass, graffiti and half-finished pottery projects — don't forget the wall of clocks.
A peek inside the performing arts school in regional NSW linked to 127 child abuse allegations reveals a building stuck in time, in more ways than one.
Inside one of the rooms, where half-finished pottery projects are littered over tables, several antiquated clocks hang from the wall, their hands not moving.
Seven people linked to the school are behind bars, accused of a long and lurid list of sexual and physical abuse against three boys, all aged under eight.
A neighbour of the school told the ABC he felt sick after learning of the allegations levelled by police yesterday, among the most confronting of which was that the young boys were subjected to "blood rituals".
Police claim blood was taken from the children, who were then forced to drink it.
The accused — four women aged 58, 29, 26 and 20, two men aged 52 and 18, and a 17-year-old girl — are all connected to the regional arts school and intend to plead not guilty.
The group's lawyer, Bryan Wrench, said there was "another side" to this story in court yesterday.‘
Read more at:
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-07/performing-arts-school-at-centre-of-child-abuse/9402090
Related:
Group linked to performing arts school in regional NSW carried out 'blood rituals' during abuse of boys, police allegep
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-...ople-linked-to-performing-arts-school/9399192