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When Nobody Was Looking

Alex Sutherland / Bianca Delalic
Running time: 13 mins

An entomologist takes on the 1970s New Zealand Government uncovering institutional racism and child abuse.

Dr. Oliver Sutherland discovers disturbing cases of abused children in state care, including imprisonment and torture of children as young as nine. Fighting a racist system, the insect scientist stands up to expose abuse in the notorious Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital, but will justice ever be served?

We called it torture. It was torture. And in the end, the United Nations has since called it torture.Dr. Oliver Sutherland

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