7 Oct 2024

Lake Alice psychologist still providing services for ACC

From Checkpoint, 5:24 pm on 7 October 2024

Lake Alice survivors are dismayed that a psychologist they knew from the notorious psychiatric facility is still providing services for ACC. Victor Soeterik is adamant he only visited Lake Alice for half a day a week to observe group therapy sessions at the child and adolescent unit, where the government has acknowledged children were tortured. But survivors saw him as the right hand man of disgraced lead psychiatrist Selwyn Leeks, saying he ran the sessions that resulted in children receiving electric shocks and painful paralysing injections, Jimmy Ellingham reports.