{"id":11152,"date":"2019-11-16T04:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/you-ruined-me-new-zealands-abuse-survivors-speak-at-landmark-inquiry"},"modified":"2019-11-16T04:00:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T19:00:16","slug":"you-ruined-me-new-zealands-abuse-survivors-speak-at-landmark-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11152","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You ruined me&#8217;: New Zealand&#8217;s abuse survivors speak at landmark inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors are given a voice at first public hearings of investigation into historical abuse of thousands of children in state and faith-based care <\/p>\n<p>On the morning Annasophia Calman is due to testify in public about a childhood destroyed at the hands of her father and the state, she eats scrambled eggs on toast and paces back and forth in the hallway outside her hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter rang up and she goes, \u2018Mum, I\u2019m so proud of you. You\u2019re finally going to do it. It\u2019s going to be over for you,\u2019 \u201d Calman says. \u201cBut I knew it wasn\u2019t over until I actually did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/15\/you-ruined-me-new-zealands-abuse-survivors-speak-at-landmark-inquiry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivors are given a voice at first public hearings of investigation into historical abuse of thousands of children in state and faith-based care On the morning Annasophia Calman is due to testify in public about a childhood destroyed at the hands of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,245,934,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-children","category-domestic-violence","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11153,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11152\/revisions\/11153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}