Child abuse
- Opinion
- Private schools
40 years ago, I was abused at Ballarat Grammar. I know first-hand that change is possible
My school reunion took me back to my worst experiences at my alma mater. These new allegations of student-on-student abuse are shocking, but eerily familiar to those who experienced similar “rituals”.
- Michael Short
Latest
Former French surgeon on trial for raping or abusing 299 children
France is set to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial of a former surgeon who kept diaries to document decades of sexual violence against children.
North Shore Rapist charged after allegedly assaulting girl in Sydney’s CBD
Notorious rapist Graham James Kay allegedly sexually touched a teenage girl in Sydney’s CBD on Friday, just months after a court was warned he would never be rehabilitated.
- Perry Duffin and Angus Thomson
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- Crime
‘I hope he rots in hell’: Paul’s relief over death of notorious paedophile priest
The 90-year-old disgraced Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale had been in prison since 1994 for sexually abusing more than 70 children.
- Melissa Cunningham and Cameron Houston
‘We failed these children’: Education department apologises to two child sex-abuse victims
The minister has said sorry after victims of a paedophile teacher were subjected to “shocking” failures by the Department of Education.
- Noel Towell, Hannah Hammoud and Caroline Schelle
How a Queensland child died homeless and hungry after living out of a box
The boy’s death was among 70 highlighted in a report that reveals how children are slipping through a system that has “forgotten how to care”.
- Fraser Barton and William Davis
Sydney tennis coach jailed for a decade over sexual abuse of students
More than a dozen community members, including a disgraced inner west priest, wrote reference letters for the coach ahead of his sentencing.
- Amber Schultz
‘Unimaginable suffering’: Missing four-year-old girl found allegedly tortured
“The alleged physical abuse this little girl endured is amongst the worst I have seen in my career,” a senior police officer said.
- William Davis
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- Crime
Religious group guilty of killing girl by putting faith before medicine
Fourteen members of “The Saints”, including the girl’s parents, were found guilty of manslaughter after withholding her diabetes medication to trust in God.
- Cloe Read
Woman charged after nine-year-old boy found dead
The 24-year-old woman was taken into custody after emergency services were called to a Townsville home on Saturday night.
- Courtney Kruk
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