Here’s what is in store on 60 Minutes this weekend.
HOME OF HORROR
After enduring years of misery, there’s finally some good news for the many victims of the Daruk Boys’ Home at Windsor, north-west of Sydney. A breakthrough in a major police investigation means several men who have been accused of dreadful physical and sexual crimes against teenagers will soon be receiving a visit from detectives. And what 60 MINUTES will also reveal is the identity of the superintendent of the government-run home whose job it was to protect the boys from harm. The young victims of the institution – now middle-aged men – say the superintendent not only refused to act on their claims of abuse, he punished them for speaking out in the first place. It led to even more suffering for the boys while he went on to a successful life in federal politics.
Reporter: Ross Coulthart
Producer: Laura Sparkes
THE WACO INSIDER
Waco, in the middle of Texas, used to be one of those American towns destined to be forever unremarkable. But 51 days of hell 25 years ago changed all that. It started when David Koresh, a cult leader who thought he was Jesus Christ, decided to take on the United States government. There was a violent gun battle and ten people, including four federal agents, were killed. But that bloodbath led to a bizarre standoff which lasted almost two months before Koresh, and 79 of his followers, were burned alive in a deliberately lit inferno. Only nine people survived. One of them was Australian man Graeme Craddock, and now for the first time he is telling what it was like inside Waco – and why he still believes David Koresh will one day return to Earth as the son of God.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Gareth Harvey
8:30PM Sunday on Nine
