Netta is an aboriginal girl who had been taken away from her mother.
A police officer lured her away with a tasty treat and put her in a truck headed for an institution in Alice springs where she would be trained as a domestic servant.
Netta was only 5 years old at the time, and unable to communicate, because she only knew her native aboriginal language, not english. Luckily one of the older girls was an aboriginal, and therefore she could explain to Netta that she would be at the institution for the rest of her life, and never see her mother again. Netta had described the institution as a prison.
When Netta grew up she got married and had children of her own, she had thought that her mother was dead for the last 30 years. But after a call from an office worker she had a surprise. Her mother had found her and they reunited. They both broke down and cried at the reunion.
"My girl has come home" her mother said.
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“Where’s my baby gone?”, a sculpture of a grieving mother by artist Silvio Apponyi in Adelaide, South Australia.
The mother is an aboriginal who has lost her child, like many others.
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