Worst drug scandal of all time
THE girl’s head is flung back, her mouth open in a cry of pain. She doesn’t feel anything. She is a bronze sculpture symbolising the suffering of 10,000 or more children around the world born in the 1950s and ’60s who did suffer greatly, and still do, as adults.
Because their mothers ingested the notorious drug thalidomide, they were born without legs or arms or with foreshortened limbs like The Sick Child cast in bronze. Some were born deaf and blind; some with curved spines, or with heart and brain damage.
