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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-398/
- Published: 2021-07-17T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-17T09:23:03.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

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Steve Watt. Image credit The BFD.

> **A high-achieving teen became a shell of his former self after he was sent to a notorious psychiatric institute. He tells Jimmy Ellingham how Lake Alice changed his life.**  
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> As electricity pulsed through his body, the boy stiffened and convulsed.  
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> Terrified, the others looked on at the behest of their tormenter.  
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> It was 1976, in villa seven of the child and adolescent unit at Lake Alice, near Marton.  
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> Tied to a bed, a boy from Niue was surrounded by other teenagers and children.  
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> Stuff

[Read the article in full here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300358637/lake-alice-torture-session-changed-life-of-highachieving-teenager?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*