Police Investigate the former Orphanage Site
for Children's Remains.
for Children's Remains.
Former Ballarat Orphanage Site 13th-04-2015
Media Release
No human remains have been found, at the site of the former Ballarat Orphanage with police now finished at the site. Investigators have spent the past week excavating the site relating to an allegation bodies may have been buried there prior to its closure in 1968. However, no human remains have been found no further police activity will occur at the site and investigation is no considered complete. 17th of April 2015.The Ballarat Courier It's been a long heart aching week which has effected so many people especially past residents and their families. Lets hope this will be the final chapter into this matter. |
Victoria Police has begun a search for children's remains at the old Ballarat Orphanage site. A forensic team started on Tuesday and will return to work on Wednesday. In a statement released on Tuesday, Victoria Police said the investigation had sprung out of an allegation about the orphanage burying children on the Victoria street site before its closure in 1968. "Victoria Police has received information that children may have been buried on the grounds of the former Ballarat Orphanage," the statement said. "(We are) liaising closely with The Coroners Court, the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and the government to investigate this allegation." The possibility of children being buried at the old orphanage was first publicly raised in 2013, when two former residents sisters told Ballarat City Council during the development process for the site, which was sold in 2011. Orphanage burial site claim referred to Coroner, police By RACHEL AFFLICK Aug. 14, 2013, 12:30 a.m. Media Release Media releases of the investigations .
14th - 04-2015 Forensic team digs for remains at old Ballarat orphanage By MATTHEW DIXON and ALEX HAMER April 14, 2015, Media Release Former Ballarat orphanage grounds dug up as police investigate allegations of buried children's remains
ABC News 14 Apr 2015, Media Release |