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Boarding house like prison, inquiry hears

The disability royal commission chaired by Ronald Sackville QC has begun hearings in Parramatta. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

A woman with disability was drugged, raped, regularly hit by staff and deprived of food while living in a Sydney boarding house, a royal commission examining homelessness has been told.

Charlotte, 61, was diagnosed with schizophrenia as a teenager and has lived in about a dozen hospitals and state-run institutions in NSW since, including a Stanmore boarding house.

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