DownUnder
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You have to also consider the school was there for close to 100 years, that's an average of 2 deaths per year, and a lot of that time was before modern medicine where something like an appendix would be a death sentence for a child, or the Spanish flu etc.Sadly this wasn’t a secret, indigenous, churches, NGOs and govt have known about these burial sites for more that 100 years. Not a secret, not a mystery, just an out of bounds discussion for all concerned. nobody wanted to go there.
When I look at this I think all of the above acted shamefully in silence for the last 100 years.
What would the school do with the bodies of a deceased child? Take it back to its village? Or bury it on the school grounds.
The headlines seem really bad but the reality probably isn't. There is no way a GPR can give you enough detail to say how old a child in a grave is. Did any of the graduates come forward over the years and describe any wrongdoing by the staff?