An abuse survivor is calling for Pacific people in New Zealand who have been abused in care to go to the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care for guidance and support.
Frances Tagaloa spoke at a hearing of the Abuse in Care inquiry in Auckland this week about the sexual and emotional abuse she experienced in the Catholic church in the 1970s.
The abuser was part of the Marist Brothers and to this day Mrs Tagaloa hasn't received a formal apology from the institution.
RNZ Pacific's Sela Jane Hopgood reports.
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