The scale of abuse was “unimaginable” with an estimated 200,000 people abused over seven decades,many of them Maori,a new report found.
A convicted murderer says being sexually abused as a schoolboy led him to a life of crime,as a wave of historical sex abuse claims hits hundreds of Victorian schools.
Companies such as Apple,Microsoft,Google and Meta face fines of almost $800,000 a day if they don’t come clean on their progress in combating child exploitation and sex abuse material on their platforms.
In a shameful claim to infamy,Australians are the third-biggest users of the Philippines online child sex trade.
Anna and her two cousins were repeatedly abused by family members for online customers to see. Warning:This story contains distressing content.
Brendan Pallant,36,had been found guilty of bashing a toddler to death after moving in with the boy’s mother.
A scathing report by the NSW Ombudsman has raised a raft of concerns about children in care.
The Nobel Prize winner’s daughter says her mother stood by her husband when she was told of the abuse. The Canadian author died eight weeks ago.
The websites are currently legal in Australia,but many do not have adequate controls preventing them from generating images of children.
The victim,a 69-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons,successfully appealed an agreement struck in 2011 between him and the Society of Jesus in Australia.
Glen Fearnett hoped for change after he spoke out about being abused at a Melbourne school. Victim-survivors will now be given a platform to tell their stories.