Lake Alice Hospital Photo: PUBLIC DOMAIN./ Pawful
A survivor of Lake Alice tracked down the former head of the psychiatric hospital, Dr Selwyn Leeks, and confronted him about the abuse he had endured as a child.
Kevin Banks was first sent to Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in 1973 at the age of 14 and spent a total of two years in the hospital's child and adolescent unit in three separate periods through to the age of 16.
While at Lake Alice he experienced sexual abuse, drug abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, solitary confinement, paraldehyde injections and electroconvulsive therapy as punishment - which was often administered by Selwyn Leeks. In 1977 he laid a complaint to the Medical Council.
Yesterday at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care, the Medical Council apologised for for any actions that the Medical Council of the time should have taken, but didn't. Kevin Banks tells his story to Kathryn Ryan.
