Maryland's School
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Marylands School was a residential school for children with learning difficulties in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

, New Zealand. It was opened in 1955 and run by the Roman Catholic order Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God
The Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God are a Roman Catholic order founded in 1572. They are also known commonly as the Fatebenefratelli, meaning "Do-Good Brothers" in Italian.-History:...

.

The school was in Middleton but moved into premises in Halswell
Halswell
Halswell is a satellite town of Christchurch, New Zealand, located in open country nine kilometres southwest of the city centre on State Highway 75...

 vacated in the late 1960s by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. It changed name in 1984 to Hogden School when it was taken over by the Ministry of Education as a State special school. The land and school buildings had been owned by the Government since the 1970s when money was given for it to be rebuilt after a fire.

Sex abuse

Staff at the school were involved in 121 sex abuse allegations dating back from the 1970s, with about eighty former students receiving a total payout for compensation of about $5 million.
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