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Last week, charges were laid against Wagga Wagga school teacher, Christopher Frost, for sexually assaulting three teenage students between 1984 and 1990. Now 74-years-old, Frost
A group of researchers have found that in just 14% of contested cases in the Family Court of Australia, judicial officers expressed the belief that
Kelso Lawyers are seeking contact from people who attended Vacy, Dungog and Paterson Primary Schools from around 1978 to 1983. We are looking for students
The founder of Hillsong Church, an Australian-based, global “Christian megachurch”, has been charged with concealing information about child sexual abuse within the church. Brian Houston
Kelso Lawyers are seeking contact from former students of St Bernadette’s Catholic Primary School, Port Kennedy who attended from around 2000-2006. If you went to
Swimming Australia has rejected the media’s claim that more athletes have come forward with allegations of abuse. The Sydney Morning Herald claimed eight more athletes,
Former priest and ALP member Peter Andrew Hansen has been jailed for 17 years for child sex tourism trips in south-east Asia. He has also
Bradley Payne-Moore, a men’s image consultant from the ACT, has been jailed for downloading and possessing child abuse material including videos of a young girl
Australia’s principal opera company, Opera Australia, and tenor David Lewis are being sued over child sexual abuse offences that occurred in the 1990s. The survivor
Elderly and terminally ill survivors of child sexual abuse will be able to access advance payments of up to $10,000 from the National Redress Scheme.
Ron Brierley, a corporate titan and investor from New Zealand, has told the court he thought the child abuse material found on his laptop was
Joshua James Duggar, the former star of an American reality television series called “19 Kids & Counting”, has pleaded not guilty to receiving and possessing
It was the threat of financial penalties that triggered the Jehovah’s Witnesses to join the National Redress Scheme – a sour taste for survivors of
A survivor of child sexual abuse at Brisbane Grammar School (BGS), one of Queensland’s leading boy’s schools, has called for Principal Max Howell’s Order of
Almost 13 years after fleeing Australia, former principal Malka Leifer has returned to Melbourne to be charged for child sexual abuse. Leifer has been accused
In 1996, a former altar boy known as WCB was paid $32,500 by the Catholic Church after he was repeatedly sexually abused by a Warragul
The Catholic Church’s private insurer spent more than $58 million paying out victims of child sexual abuse in the 2019-2020 financial year. According to its
In July 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison named and shamed institutions that had failed to join the National Redress Scheme. Afterward, the Minister for Families
The information in this article was sourced from the ABC’s article “Bob Montgomery sentenced to four years in prison for historic child sex offences” by
Cardinal George Pell has released a jailhouse memoir called Prison Journal: The Cardinal Makes His Appeal recounting the humiliation he experienced during his 404 days in
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