THE LOST BOYS OF DILWORTH
TVNZ 1, Sunday, April 14, 8.30pm
Anyone who reads the news will have some idea of what has become of Dilworth School’s reputation in the past five years, of how the Auckland boarding school, established in 1906 to provide an education for disadvantaged boys, has been revealed as a place where hundreds of students were groomed and sexually abused by teachers, chaplains, tutors, housemasters and their associates.
It’s to the credit of that it captures the scale and the human cost of that abuse without ever using shock for its own sake.
