Five-year-old Hervey is entering a family violence refuge in the western suburbs of Melbourne with his family, frightened and bearing the physical scars of years of abuse. Huddled in a corner, he doesn’t communicate with refuge staff. He is visibly shaking, frightened by his new surrounds and on high alert for the next blow. Yet Hervey isn’t able to articulate his distress or even accept a cuddle from a children’s practitioner. Hervey is a Staffordshire bull terrier.
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