Offending Institution: Yasmar Boys’ Home
From the outside, Yasmar Boys’ Home may have looked like a grand heritage estate, but for the boys sent there, it was a place of
From the outside, Yasmar Boys’ Home may have looked like a grand heritage estate, but for the boys sent there, it was a place of
For thousands of Australian children, the name Minda evokes anything but protection. Despite its origins in an Aboriginal word meaning “shelter,” Minda Juvenile Justice Centre
For decades, institutions entrusted with the care and safety of children have too often failed in their most fundamental duty—protection. The Quamby Youth Detention Centre
In this edition: a former teacher avoids jail despite being convicted of sexually abusing a student, a youth offender sues the ACT government over alleged
Former Daruk Training School superintendent and federal politician Alasdair Webster has failed in his bid to have child abuse charges against him thrown out of court. Kelso Lawyers
Cobham Youth Justice Centre, formally known as Cobham Remand Centre, has a long and shocking history of child abuse. For decades, countless children within the
Youth detention centres in Australia have a damning history. From Reiby Youth Justice Centre to Mt Penang Training School in New South Wales and Turana
Reiby Juvenile Justice Centre is one of NSW’s most notorious youth detention facilities. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, adult employees committed shocking acts of
WARNING: This article contains explicit sexual content, child abuse and mutilation which may shock and trigger some people. Reader discretion is advised. Beatings, genital mutilation,
WARNING: This article includes references to suicide, which some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is advised. In 2014, shocking allegations of brutal sexual and
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