Time to end silence on sexual violence
What does your family say when you tell them someone they love is a rapist? Gripping new podcast My Sister’s Secrets is unlike anything you’ve heard before.
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Why is my abuser still at large?
After being sexually assaulted at a children’s sleepover birthday party in 1987, Jesse Elmer is still fighting to keep a paedophile teacher’s aide away from kids.
Public allegations of rape stem from failed ‘rule of law’
The compulsion to seek retribution, by any means available, is a strong one.
Winds of culture change are blowing in
Women in the highest echelons of power, finally feeling supported enough to call out rape in their place of work, is culture change in motion.
Simple technique could convict thousands
Only a tiny fraction of sex offenders in Australia are ever convicted. One simple change could make the difference — so why aren’t Australian lawyers using it?
Bid to ease courtroom trauma
Traumatised survivors often can’t speak aloud the horrors they suffered — but a radical push to allow typed testimony is worrying some senior lawyers
Secrets out: ultimate act of defiance
In the weeks after revealing her experience of sexual abuse, Virginia Tapscott felt exposed in her home town. Then the purging began.
Victims reporting incidents decades on
An increasing number of senior women are reporting child sexual abuse, often many decades after the incidents have occurred.
Confessed rapist allowed to walk free
It’s been 221 days since Stacey Simpson recorded her stepfather’s confession to raping her throughout her childhood.
‘My sister was abused. So was I. She’s dead.’
My sister was raped. We were both molested. The perpetrators are in our family. And I simply won’t be silent for one more second.
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