Maggie Dawkins
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411 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 6d ago
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No one could understand it.
The first two sons, they took their own lives.
The younger two, the anguish and the trauma that they felt at not having their older brothers as mentors.
There were empty seats at the kitchen table.
And they took their lives.
They turned to drugs.
They spiralled in sadness and in desperation.
And Kay has four dead sons.
And those four dead sons are the direct result of Dennis McKenna's offending.
It's an evolving story still, and there's a whole heap of reasons why it's not over.
Those hostel kids, they convicted not only Dennis McKenna, but Dennis McKenna employed two of his brothers, Neil and Wayne, and hostel kids convicted both Neil and Wayne of sex offences against girls.
So there was offences against both sexes.
Against everyone, yep.
The Katanning Shire Council has never offered an apology.
Never.
And in fact, in 2012, after the Blacksall inquiry,
They decided to vote unanimously against an apology and against a memorial to the suffering of the victims.
There's more to Katanning.
October 2025.
Katanning Primary School Principal Jeffrey McNichol convicted on sexual offences indecent dealing with a child under 13.
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