New Zealand will provide financial compensation to children and teens who were abused at a state psychiatric hospital in the 1970s and issue a written letter of apology that explicitly acknowledges torture, the government said on Wednesday.
An inquiry released in July found that 362 children who did not have any form of mental illness were subject to unmodified electroconvulsive therapy or paraldehyde injections at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital Child and Adolescent Unit between 1972 and 1978.