Under the radar

[Rincewindswind]

With everything else that is going on in the country at the moment this has probably gone under the radar for a lot of people 😕
I am pretty disgusted by the headline, but it's the Scum (sorry Sun) who seem to have the exclusive, so pardon the link.
www.thesun.co.uk/news/29707018/survivors-abuse-hospital-compensation/

I think I'm more Angry that this has been investigated many times by the police over the years yet nothing was done. 😡

Can you give a summary? I refuse to click on the Sun and increase their viewing figures

Found another article https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/24500830.compensation-announced-hill-end-adolescent-unit-abuse-victims/

please explain what this is about, rather than posting links no one with any sense will click on

The Hill End Compensation Scheme will compensate anyone who suffered abuse at the facility between 1969 and 1995.

A three-year long police investigation found that young people were physically and sexually abused at the Hill End Hospital over a period of two-and-a-half decades.

"It is a recognition that what we went through as children happened, that it was wrong and that it has caused unimaginable damage. When we were children, we had no voice.

Senior solicitor Saoirse Kerrigan led the negotiations for the firm.

She said: “The descriptions our clients have provided of Hill End Adolescent Unit are of a brutal and dark place.

"The evidence we have seen shows that for many years children who went through the unit were routinely sedated as a form of punishment and control, often rendering them unconscious and vulnerable to abuse, and leaving them traumatised for many years to come.

I actually know Hill End well as I worked in a linked psychiatric hospital in the 80's. I was very young at the time.

There was a lot of abuse. It's one of the reasons I didn't continue it as a career. I worked more with older people. At that point we still had some women who'd be put there because they had a baby out of wedlock, that kind of thing. Very sad. But the way some staff treated those people was horrendous so this sadly does not surprise me at all. But I'm glad these victims are getting some recognition of what they went through.

Children, as young as 10, were dumped here, mostly by social services, knowing these children were being adult doses of psychiatric drugs, either by making them drink it or being forcibly injected.
This led to sexual abuse for some children, and I would think there were some kids who never knew what what went on while they were out of it.
It is appalling that it went on 1969-1994 and people knew this. Staff, kids, but there was never enough evidence apparently. Because who is listening to problem kids right??