In 350 years, until 1967, an estimated 150,000 children were sent to British colonies Virginia, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
The Fairbridge Society was established in 1909 to help children from orphanages in the UK migrate to British colonies with promises of a good education and a better life for these poor, poor kids. They were told they were orphans when many still had family in the UK.
In reality many of these children were physically, sexually and mentally abused.
David Hill, former head of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and victim of the child migration policies, claims that 60% of the children at Fairbridge Molong were sexually abused, and said in 2016:
I was illegally treated and subject to public floggings … But I wasn’t sexually abused like so many others were. That abuse was terrible and it would break your heart. Little girls and boys as young as five and six being abused regularly, and they are irreparably damaged.
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Three former Fairbridge boys accused the Australian Governor General from 1952 to 1959, Lord Slim (KG in 1954), of sexually molesting them during rides in his chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce while visiting the home:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39078652
Of course it was widely known that many of these poor, poor children were molested, but this was covered up.
In the mid-1950s, the UK Home Office tried to blacklist some of the schools where the abuse took place, but this was blocked by “noble” individuals, including Prince Henry the Duke of Gloucester (KG in 1921), Governor General of Australia from 1944 to 1947, and at the time president of the Fairbridge Society.
British high nobility sponsored this state-orchestrated child trafficking, including Queen Elizabeth II (may she burn in hell), who donated £2,000 to Fairbridge in 1948:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... -migration
In 2012, The Fairbridge Society merged with Charles’ Prince’s trust.
In 2022, the UK high court put the Fairbridge victims’ claims at £204,0000 each (A$382,000). So the Prince’s trust, now responsible for the claims, told survivors they can get £2,000 each!
It is already 5 years since redress was promised by the Prince’s Trust, but in a smart move they simply stalled payment, according to David Hill already a quarter of eligible victims have died since 2018:
https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... e-payments
