Somebody’s Daughter

I stumbled across this as I listen to a lot of true crime podcasts and also love Megan books and also Moira who I have listen to in the radio for 17 + years. I am horrified to hear about this, it’s heartbreaking. As a mother I can’t imagine someone taking away my child. To have someone not only take your baby but manipulate, shame and drug you to do it is vile. Thank you Moira and Megan for address this and placing it in our history, as horrific as it is, these voices need to be heard.

I am someone who was basically locked in a room for six months in an unmarried mother’s home in 1968 in North Fitzroy in Melbourne. It took me a long time to realise I was coerced from the minute I walked in the front door of that building! Not for a second was I allowed to have any thoughts or feelings of my own. They kept hammering at me all the time that they had people waiting for children and that I was selfish if I wanted to keep my own my own child. Mind you, I found out when I was three months pregnant that I was carrying twins. To this day I’m emotionally scarred from that experience! There’s too much to tell you right now in one review here but suffice it is to say that reading these and listening to these podcasts has helped me realise that I was abused in that place and how that abuse has caused major triggers in me for the rest of my life; triggers that I’m only recognising now at 79! So thanks again for these podcasts and thanks for listening to us.

I am an ‘adopted’ child born in Crown Street 1964 and currently investigating what really happened ?? This is shocking, disturbing and sad to hear what was really happening back then!! All of us have been victims in this!!

This happened to my grandmother and she never opened up about any of it so this is very interesting to be able to understand a little bit of the hell she really did have to go through. She died from complications with breast cancer earlier this year so the medication link is also interesting to hear. Thanks