This was the constant thought going through the mind of a nine-year-old boy who was sent to the adult psychiatric hospital Cherry Farm, near Dunedin. Between the ages of seven and eight, he ended up fostered in various family homes before, five days after turning nine, he ended up in Cherry Farm awaiting a placement at Hokio Beach School in the North Island. ''I didn't have any understanding of why I was taken to Cherry Farm. ''I was excited to go to Cherry Farm. He was taken to the main area and then locked in with the adult patients.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 04, 2021 01:41 UTC