3 Young Indigenous People Killed Themselves In The Kimberley And A Coroner Found Intergenerational T
3 Young Indigenous People Killed Themselves In The Kimberley And A Coroner Found Intergenerational Trauma Was To Blame
The youngest was aged 10.
Posted on February 6, 2019, at 11:43 p.m.
Josh Taylor
BuzzFeed Senior Reporter, Australia
The Western Australian coroner has found 12 out of 13 deaths of young Indigenous people in the remote Kimberley region between 2012 and 2016 were suicides, and that all of the deaths were a result of “tragic intergenerational trauma”.
The report from coroner Ros Fogliani, released on Thursday, follows an inquest held in 2017 and 2018 into the deaths in the region, due to the similar circumstances surrounding their deaths. The names have been suppressed.
Fogliani said the overarching connection between all the deaths was the result of the crushing impact of "intergenerational trauma and poverty upon entire communities".
"That community-wide trauma generated multiple and prolonged exposures to individual traumatic events for these children and young persons," she said.
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