hi there again, after my reception beating on arriving at tamworth ,irecall seeing an inmate marching towards me .... and although i was in a lot of pain ,i wondered why he was so skinny ...after my time was finished there i probly weighed less than him ...to start a the begining of my story,, my mum was constantly bashed , as were my sisters , and my self by my >father<?. ok so after running away or running out of the way , the child welfare stepped in and i was placed in care of some people , i had to run of from them too they scared me .seems i was uncontrolable and i was sent to royalstone boys home in sydney, i was seven yrs old . my sisters whom i could not protect no more were in a girls home on the nth shore i think but im not sure it could have been called st. josephs ... my mum had gone mad and was in a mental institution ..
the next time i saw her was thirty seven yrs later ... i have found both my sisters they are well and we keep contact .they are younger than myself i am 64... hope im still makeing sence with this ..

jails , my time spent in them yes i did the crimes to be in there , i guess im what is termed a petty crim .. mental institutions well i guess that was bound to happen .. bad child hood .instituteions bashings , for no reason that i can put my finger on ... tamworth really hurt me ... what angered me back then was the fact that three inmates called store boys chased me , caught me gave me a biffing and handed me over to the fo-ul smelling superitendent,who in turn had me shanghied to tamworth... why did i try to run off at mt penang ?. simple i was scared of everyone ... ok so im getting upset and frightened again so i will come back later and try and finish this posting

Hi Hollie Stone...Yes my partner pushed that STONE more than once. The one thing that you say about kids being skinny is so right my partner told me more than once that when boy got out of the car at Gosford you knew where they came from if they were really skinny they came from Tamworth and if they were not to bad they came off the streets. He was at both places with Finch and Neddy. How did these people (if you can call them that)sleep at night. If ONLY 1/8 was true they need horse wipping

last comments for me on this subject .. i think some times how come so many of us ex inmates started out as innocent kids ,, got the crap beat out of us by a parent ,or worse then came under the notice of a department and through no fault of our own ended up in a place even more sinister than what we were running from... not makeing sence again am i ?.. what im saying is ,,,running from danger is normal for children why punish a five, six, or seven yr old when their poseing no threat...it just does not sound right to me when a grown man part of the system says quote im locking you away for your own welfare ...i noticed your comments liz nice to meet you .. anyways look like i said i was at tamworth , hated the place .. hay girl i didnt know hay girls home existed and was run on the same basis as tamworth .. untill late nineties. shocked me ,, and im real happy hay girl your doing ok , i did hear once the disapline used in most institutions was based on navy punishment ,if thats true im glad i didn,t join the navy as an adult other wise a lot of captains and admirals would have got knocked right out trying that on me when i was growed ,,ok so im outta of here it does help to jog down a line or two on paper ..ty and take care of your selves ... my grand kids will be fine im there to look after them ... after all its all about looking after the young ... see ya

liz i didn,t forget you , if your partner was there and he said it happened it happened. hollie stones, beatings,what i called musical pipes and bars,(running a peice of bar over bars on a grill)air sweeping.. hard work trying to sleep with your hands in sight , and if you suddenly find your partner dont talk much its probly because he has been in a place where he couldn,t talk... thing is.. yep! we cry most people do, and the ""white rat faced"" people that ran those places broke and hurt us, one thing they forgot and that is one day we would grow up and learn to talk again ...,