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For culture's sake, keep abused kids in towns
18.12.2007
worker disciplined over her handling of the multiple rape of a 10-year-old girl in the Cape York community of Aurukun has argued that abused children should remain in the township for the sake of their ``cultural, emotional and spiritual... read more -
Born of grog violence to child tragedy
15.12.2007
SHE was a child of Aurukun's beer bottle era -- a violent, drunken 13-year experiment into the officially sanctioned sale of alcohol. When she was born in August 1995, the town's alcohol canteen was five years old, and her mother was a raging... read more -
PACK RAPE LEADS TO DENIAL CULTURE
14.12.2007
EDITORIAL. LIKE a house of cards, the claims by state and territory governments that they are serious in their efforts to tackle the problems of child abuse in remote indigenous communities have begun to tumble. The scandal surrounding the pack rape... read more -
Police claim abuse cover-up
14.12.2007
QUEENSLAND government ministers ordered Department of Child Safety workers not to tell police about hundreds of cases of suspected child abuse and neglect on Cape York following a row over the gang rape of a 10-year-old girl at the Aboriginal community... read more -
Family's warnings ignored
13.12.2007
THE family of a 10-year-old gang-rape victim last night revealed they had warned child safety authorities she would be attacked if taken out of a Cairns foster home and returned to their remote Aboriginal community of Aurukun. Amid a continuing public... read more -
Prosecutor in rape girl case stood down
12.12.2007
QUEENSLAND Crown prosecutor Steve Carter was stood down last night after court transcripts revealed he had described the males who gang-raped a 10-year-old girl in a remote Aboriginal community as ``naughty'' and not deserving of a jail sentence. Mr... read more -
Officials failed their sworn duty
12.12.2007
--- COMMENT --- TO what depth has justice in Queensland sunk when a Crown prosecutor considers it reasonable to propose to a sentencing court that teenagers and mature men who rape a 10-year-old intellectually impaired girl should not go to jail? And... read more
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