A nurse who worked in the Australian-run detention centre on Nauru says children there are being inadvertently tortured and exposed to "shocking" conditions.
The Australian Senate has voted to support a Greens' motion, forcing the government to today release the report of the Moss Review into accusations of systemic abuse in the detention camp on Nauru.
Ms Maycock, who worked in the family wing in December, says she saw a lot of behavioural problems in the children due to trauma.
"One seven-year-old child had put electric cable ties around her neck to try and hang herself. Another 15-year-old boy that we saw had sewn his lips up. And I spoke at length with him to try and encourage him to stay strong and that we would advocate for him when we left the camp."
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Alanna Maycock says she also witnessed a three-year-old child on anti-psychotic drugs, women and children wetting their beds in the night to avoid walking 120 metres to a toilet and a lack of sanitary pads.
She says there are 176 children still in the camp.