Photo / FileBy Jimmy Ellingham, RNZPolice have identified more than 130 former patients of the Lake Alice psychiatric hospital's child and adolescent unit who received electric shocks to their genitals or as punishment, rather than treatment. In their third investigation into allegations of abuse at the unit in the 1970s, police found 136 former patients who had received such shocks. The latest police investigation resulted in charges of ill-treatment of children being laid against former staff member, 90-year-old John Richard Corkran. From the statements, police identified 13 former patients who received electric shocks to their genitals or as punishment, interviewing six. The third phase of the investigation concentrated on Leeks and other staff members as people of interest.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 25, 2022 21:34 UTC