Children as young as 12 reported allegations of sexual assault,drug use and abandonment in motel rooms without close supervision.
Despite apologising and paying more than $1 million to a victim of clerical abuse,Salesian College continued to eulogise a disgraced priest for years.
Survivor and campaigner Stewart Carter – who watched the man who abused him walk free from court – is calling on the state government to back the state opposition’s bill.
New data shows an increasing number of reports of significant harm to children living in group homes funded by the government.
The alleged stabbing of a Sydney bishop by a teenager has reignited Australian alarm at the realities of online harm,reopening a debate about how to protect children.
Secrecy in justice should be a last resort,but it is widespread in Victoria. Is the system fair?
The Uniting Church is being forced to sell off property to fund at least $10 million in payouts to survivors of sexual abuse.
The mother-of-two claimed she feared her daughters would be kidnapped when she allowed them to join her in a suicide pact.
The big internet companies are not even doing “the bare minimum” to protect our societies from the mass-scale paedophilia and terrorist incitement flourishing on their sites.
A board of inquiry examining historical child sexual abuse at Beaumaris Primary School has called for a statewide truth-telling process for victim-survivors,describing the Education Department’s response to allegations as recent as 1994 as an “appalling and systemic failure”.
The Sun-Herald has spoken to five anonymous foster carers who have accused the government of failing them and the children in their care.