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Coroner calls for urgent closure of troubled youth jail
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12/11/2024
Connie Georgatos reads from a statement by Cleveland Dodd's mother Nadene. Video by AAP
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It breaks my heart to know that from the moment he was transferred to Unit 18,
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Cleveland never got the chance to go outside, to feel the sun on his skin, to breathe in fresh air,
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to look at the sky. Instead, Cleveland spent his time locked down for almost 24 hours of the day,
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day in and day out, for weeks on end. The images I saw of him surrounded by uneven plates of food
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could not be unseen. The concrete box in which he took his last breaths was barren and filthy.
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Cleveland deserved more. All children deserve more. Institutional abuse of children is
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unacceptable in the same way that any abuse of children is unacceptable.
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We should hold governments to a higher, not a lower, standard.
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