Kidnapped Indigenous Australian wins landmark payout

50-year-old, Bruce Trevorrow won a historic victory in August against the colonial government of Australia after it was found guilty of false imprisonment and failing in its duty of care.

The colonial authorities kidnapped Mr.Trevorrow when he was 13 months old in 1957, after lying to his parents by telling them that he was being treated in hospital. The misleadingly titled ‘Aboriginal Protection Board’ which kidnapped up to 55,000 Indigenous Australian children, then went on to imprison him with an immigrant european-Australian family.

Mr.Trevorrow, was injected with tranquilisers at ten years old after being placed in a mental institution for suffering from severe depression at aged eight after attempts to indoctrinate him into the blie that he was ‘white’. He had previously received treatment for pulling out his hair at just three years old. He also suffered racial abuse, alcohol abuse, spent time in jail and was unable to hold down a regular job. Mr Trevorrow was awarded an unprecedented A$525,000 by a judge in the South Australian supreme court.

After the ruling, a relieved Mr.Trevorrow said, "I thought that we would never get here. But the day's come when I've got the peace of mind to start my life."

Mr.Trevorrow is the first victim of the ‘Stolen Generations’ to be awarded compensation for the horrors he experienced. The ground-breaking 1997 ‘Bring them Home’ report, revealed how thousands of Indigenous Australians where kidnapped and given to immigrant european-Australian families to be mentally, culturally and physically destroyed in an act of familiar european supremacist assimilation.