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‘IT’ TURNS BLIND EYE TO CHILD ABUSE SCANDAL


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MOST media covered the recent catalogue of child sex abuse offences by religious lay worker Patrick O’Brien who pleaded guilty to 51 sample counts of abusing 14 children over a 33-year period to 2010. Described in one report as the largest number of offences reported against any individual in the history of the state, two... Read more »

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