An estimated 1,000 people known as Forgotten Australians were part of a large crowd that attended a ceremony in Canberra, Australia Sunday 15 November where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized to the estimated 70,000 people who were abused in state care from about 1930-1970, many of them part of a group of British children forced to migrate to Australia and work as forced labour on farms, some of them sexually abused as children. The British prime minister will also formally apologize in 2010 for the British forced migration policy, his office has announced.
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Geneva, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – Fifteen children under the age of 12 were hospitalized and treated for sexual abuse by other children at the HUG (university hospitals) in 2008. but doctors there say they are seeing only a portion of cases. In an interview with Giancarlo Mariani at 20 Minutes they were unable to provide an estimate for the number of children being sexually abused, but they did say they are seeing several new kinds of cases.
