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Allegations
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The police are
reviewing their file on a former head doctor at Lake Alice psychiatric
hospital near Wanganui, following a fresh complaint of abuse. Last year the police
closed their investigation into Dr Selwyn Leeks over complaints of abuse by
former patients at the child and adolescent unit he headed between 1972 and
1977. The adolescent unit closed in 1978. The police said there
was not enough evidence of criminal offending to extradite him from
Australia, where he is now working. A spokesperson for the
police commissioner's office says they have received a new complaint, and are
looking into it to see if any further inquiry is warranted. In 2001, the government
paid a group of former Lake Alice patients more than $10 million compensation
for mistreatment at the hospital. |
