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SHOCKING: Department boss to front tas abuse inquiry - What They Never Told You

Sexual Abuse Tasmania Department of Communities

Brett Robinson addresses the inquiry into child sexual abuse in Tasmania's public institutions. (AAP)

Shortly after Brett Robinson arrived at Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre as a 14-year-old he was slammed to the ground and stripped naked.

"I got down to my boxers and I went to pick my clothes up. He said 'no you need to take your shorts off'," Mr Robinson told a commission of inquiry into child sexual abuse in state public institutions.

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