On a cold winter's day in 1957, 9-year-old Bill Simon was physically forced into the back of a government welfare officer's car and driven to the notoriously brutal Kinchela Boys' Home near Kempsey, where some of the most sadistic punishments were inflicted on innocents by former
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Army personnel. Bill remembers having to 'walk the line' into the flying punches of other boys and being forced to work barefoot on the farm, even in winter. His gut-wrenching life story Back on the Block is another testimony to the unimaginable harm suffered by members of the stolen generations, but it's also filled with hope and the power of forgiveness. He talks about his conversion to God after a bad acid trip and a very close brush with death at the hands of another Kinchela boy, years later.
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