National Sorry Day 2022

Aunty Lindy Lawler and her twin sister suffered horrible abuse after being stolen from their parents as babies. As she heals from the trauma, she wants to ...

"And my father, well we never got to meet him, we only heard stories about him. I can still see what she did to us," Aunty Lindy said. "We would go straight to the wood panel and bite on the wood to stop the pain in our hands, cause we weren't allowed to speak, scream or do nothing," she said. "She would line us up in front of the gas stove, and just light the gas and the flames would come up. "I remember we crawled along the floor going into the cupboards to find something to eat, then going into other cupboards to try and find food," she said. She said the woman would see them on the floor going for the cupboards, "only because we wanted something to eat, we didn't know it was a bad thing to do'."