The true horror of what happened to the kids at Lake Alice | The Lake podcast - Ep 4 | Stuff.co.nz

While the NZ public has some idea of what happened to the kids of Lake Alice, the true horror of it lies in unfiltered accounts of the day-to-day. Read: https://bit.ly/3oaYsoo | Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2JPg8oB

For these children, things like eating dinner, going to bed or watching a movie all came with the possibility of assault, or even torture.

In this episode, survivors take us inside the Lake Alice child and adolescent unit, to show us how it feels when ‘horrifying’ is your normal.

Note, this episode contains explicit accounts of physical, sexual and psychological harm perpetrated against children. It is designed to be self-contained, so if you skip ahead to episode 5 all will still make sense.

Best Narrative Podcast at the 2022 Voyager Media Awards
Gold Medal winner at the NY Festivals Radio Awards 2022

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WHAT IS THE LAKE ABOUT?

In 1972, an eleven-year-old boy was abandoned in an adult mental institution, where he was assaulted by staff and other patients, and forced into cruel, experimental behavioural experiments by a respected psychiatrist.

But the fate of Tyrone was no anomaly. Over six years, hundreds of children were subjected to astonishingly brutal treatment at the Lake Alice Psychiatric Facility – at the hands of the very thing that was meant to be looking after them: the New Zealand state.

In this seven-part podcast by Stuff and Popsock Media, investigative journalist AARON SMALE cuts through the web of neglect and denial which allowed such an outrage to happen. He talks to survivors of Lake Alice as well as former staff, and goes in search of the monstrous psychiatrist who oversaw the experimental therapies at Lake Alice: Dr Selwyn Leeks.

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CREDITS

Presentation and research: Aaron Smale
Additional, research, production and editing: Kirsten Johnstone, Popsock Media
Writing and studio direction: Melody Thomas, Popsock Media
Survivor support: Tyrone Marks
Music and narration recording: Ben Lemi
Sound design and final mix: Marc Chesterman
Script advisors: Eugene Bingham and Adam Dudding, Stuff
Logo design: Ella Bates-Herman, Stuff
Layout and development: John Harford, Stuff
Commissioning editors: Carol Hirschfeld and Patrick Crewdson, Stuff

Aaron Smale was supported in early research on Lake Alice by a Senior Journalism Grant from the Bruce Jesson Foundation.

Thanks to Tyrone Marks, Rangi Wickliffe, Leoni McInroe, Hake Halo, Kevin Banks, Paul Zentveld, Vernon Sorenson, Sharyn Collis, Anna Natusch, Oliver Sutherland, Dr John Werry, Victor Boyd, Mike Ferris, Brian Stabb and everyone else who spoke to us for this series. We couldn't have made it without you.

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