{"id":3022,"date":"2019-04-05T14:13:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T03:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kelsolawyers.com\/au\/?post_type=newsitem&#038;p=3022"},"modified":"2023-09-04T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T01:21:08","slug":"graeme-curran-sexual-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kelsolawyers.com\/au\/graeme-curran-sexual-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Magistrate Graeme Curran found guilty of indecently assaulting a teenager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NSW Magistrate Graeme Bryan Curran has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/magistrate-graeme-curran-found-guilty-of-indecently-assaulting-teenager-20190403-p51a9q.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage boy<\/a> nine times between 1981 and 1983. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The boy was 13-years-old when the abuse started.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Curran befriended the boys\u2019 family and offered to take the teenager on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/magistrate-indecently-assaulted-teenage-boy-in-ritual-court-told-20190307-p512cw.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sailing, camping and skiing trips<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It is alleged during these trips, Curran would sleep naked in the same bed as the teenager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While Curran denies sleeping naked with the boy, he has admitted to sharing a bed with him. When questioned about this in court, Curran said getting an extra room was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/sydney-news-trial-continues-into-magistrate-graeme-bryan-curran-alleged-teen-abuse\/e7d89e7a-3473-4df1-9148-0c7ff8201018\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cneedless expense\u201d and he \u201cdidn&#8217;t have any money to throw away\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/he-broke-me-court-hears-evidence-from-graeme-curran-s-alleged-victim-20190328-p518ld.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five of the nine charges relate to a single sailing trip<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Curran is accused of performing oral sex on the boy, tackling him to the ground and pressing up against him on the trip.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/he-broke-me-court-hears-evidence-from-graeme-curran-s-alleged-victim-20190328-p518ld.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the other charges involves a \u201critual\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where Curran invited the teenager to stay overnight, forced him to sleep in the same bed naked and rubbed his hands all over the boy\u2019s body.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/he-broke-me-court-hears-evidence-from-graeme-curran-s-alleged-victim-20190328-p518ld.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was a bit of a mantra, I guess. He would be saying, &#8216;just relax, just relax, close your eyes&#8217;,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the victim (who remains nameless) said.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When questioned in court, the victim said he felt like something died inside him and he often cried himself to sleep. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI was broken,\u201d he said. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/he-broke-me-court-hears-evidence-from-graeme-curran-s-alleged-victim-20190328-p518ld.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe broke me.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>In 2019, Curran was sentenced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/nsw-act\/courts-law\/disgraced-nsw-magistrate-graeme-curran-to-launch-high-court-appeal\/news-story\/ff505ad9d1ea144119001ff2fb68e6cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">two years and four months in prison<\/a> with a non-parole period of 16 months after a District Court jury found him guilty of seven counts of assaulting a teenager between 1981 and 1983.<\/p>\n<p>However, on appeal, his sentence was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/nsw-act\/courts-law\/disgraced-nsw-magistrate-graeme-curran-to-launch-high-court-appeal\/news-story\/ff505ad9d1ea144119001ff2fb68e6cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">slashed to 16 months with a non-parole period of nine months<\/a> which allowed him to walk free in June 2020.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, Curran&#8217;s lawyer announced Curran would be<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/nsw-act\/courts-law\/disgraced-nsw-magistrate-graeme-curran-to-launch-high-court-appeal\/news-story\/ff505ad9d1ea144119001ff2fb68e6cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> taking the case to\u00a0the High Court to have his remaining five convictions quashed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><b>Rally in Melbourne calls for changes to the National Redress Scheme\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 100 people gathered on the steps of the Victorian Parliament on March 31st, 2019, to criticise the $3.8 billion <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/kelsolawyers.com\/au\/our-work\/national-redress-scheme\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Redress Scheme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Advocates in the crowd chanted, \u201cmake them pay\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Child abuse survivor, Stephen Bisinella, was present in the crowd. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/rally-calls-for-changes-to-redress-scheme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen was abused by a school teacher when he was eight years old<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The abuse continued for six years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Royal Commission, Stephen received $69,000 from the National Redress Scheme. He says the $150,000 cap amounts to a slap in the face.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEvery area of my life has been impacted. My marriage, my family, my education. There has been unemployment, drug and alcohol abuse, self-harming and suicide attempts,&#8221; Stephen told the crowd.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/rally-calls-for-changes-to-redress-scheme\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlthough I have survived, I have been worn into a hollow shell.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 60,000 survivors have applied for compensation but just a fraction are expected to receive satisfactory payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Researchers aim to reveal the economic cost of child sexual abuse in the community<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A $2.3 million study funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council will soon begin to uncover the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-03-11\/child-abuse-study-financial-cost\/10883284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">link between various forms of child abuse and the financial cost on the community<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over a five-year period, 10,000 people will be interviewed regarding health problems that resulted from child abuse, including mental health issues, chronic illnesses, drug abuse and alcohol abuse. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Led by the Queensland University of Technology Professor Ben Mathews, researchers hope the findings will encourage the government to invest in better abuse prevention measures.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt is very important because, at the moment, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-03-11\/child-abuse-study-financial-cost\/10883284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia does not have benchmark data on how many children experience all forms of maltreatment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u201d Professor Mathews says.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs a result of that, we do not know how common the problem is, which kids are most at risk and how we can best help those kids.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe expect to find quite a substantial incidence of child maltreatment and we think we will find a certain group of kids actually suffer multiple forms of maltreatment.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study will reveal the prevalence of five kinds of abuse: sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and exposure to domestic violence, and other major childhood adversities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Co-researcher Professor James Scott emphasised emotional abuse can be just as damaging as sexual abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-03-11\/child-abuse-study-financial-cost\/10883284\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been such a focus on sexual abuse and physical abuse, but we often forget about the impact of emotional abuse and it is enormously damaging<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers expect the cost to the community to reach billions of dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Feature Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/magistrate-indecently-assaulted-teenage-boy-in-ritual-court-told-20190307-p512cw.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSW Magistrate Graeme Bryan Curran has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage boy nine times between 1981 and 1983. The boy was 13-years-old when the abuse started. Curran befriended the boys\u2019 family and offered to take the teenager on sailing, camping and skiing trips. 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