‘Children the main perpetrators of sex abuse in out-of-home care, royal commission told’ That’s the headline in the Sydney Morning Herald (10 March 2015, here); but what’s the substance of the story? According to the story: ‘The vast majority of child sexual abuse occurring in Australian foster homes and residential care facilities is perpetrated by […]
Historic Child Abuse Not Consigned to History’s Garbage Bins
Child Sexual Abuse has not been consigned to the garbage bins of history. In an opinion piece in a Sydney paper today, Claire Harvey rightly takes umbrage at a statement made to the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse last week by the former Principal of the prestigious Knox Grammar School in Sydney where sexual abuse was […]