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Money to fight Aurukun crime went unspent
23.02.2008
Queensland Government was warned three years ago that its failure to provide services for Aboriginal communities represented a serious breach of its statutory duties. An internal Department of Communities report which looked specifically at Aurukun... read more -
Judges support pedophile decision
16.02.2008
JUDGES around Australia yesterday closed ranks around Queensland colleague District Court judge Sarah Bradley following her decision to grant a pedophile, who admits he forced an indigenous boy to perform oral sex on him, time to prepare evidence that he... read more -
Gang-rape judge in new child sex furore
15.02.2008
THE north Queensland judge who last year allowed nine child rapists to go free has given a teacher, who has admitted forcing an indigenous 11-year-old boy to perform oral sex on him, time to gather evidence that he was educating his victim in ``men's... read more -
Abused boy `left to rape other kids'
25.01.2008
AN Aboriginal boy, who turns 10 today and is under investigation for allegedly raping a six-year-old boy last month, had been left in the Cape York community of Kowanyama despite the Department of Child Safety knowing he was an abuse victim who had gone... read more -
Raped girl couldn't be found
24.01.2008
QUEENSLAND welfare workers were unable to find a 13-year-old multiple rape indigenous victim, a profoundly deaf cerebral palsy sufferer whose behaviour had exhausted 43 foster carers and who had been known to the system almost her entire life. Doctors... read more -
Boy abuse victims become predators
23.01.2008
POLICE in the remote indigenous community of Kowanyama on Cape York have interviewed eight pre-teen and teenage boys after reports from doctors that very young boys had been raped by the group, with most of the alleged perpetrators themselves having been... read more -
Abuse reports buried -police not given files
19.12.2007
SENIOR Queensland Child Safety Department official claimed that reports of abuse of children at Aurukun were not passed on by departmental staff to police for at least six months. The officer told a Crime and Misconduct Commission review team... read more