Harriet Snaith

I grieve for the childhood my abuser took from me

If one child was spared as a result of my legal nightmare,it was worth it.

  • Harriet Snaith

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Matt Bachl

Senior NSW media adviser charged over child abuse material

Matthew John Bachl,38,has been suspended without pay from his role with NSW Corrective Services.

  • Kate Aubusson
Ballarat Grammar has called in police to investigate assault claims.

Private school hires security guards to protect sleeping students

Security guards and cameras have been brought into Ballarat Grammar,a prestigious school that is facing claims of a “strapping” culture.

  • Noel Towell
The Australian Law Reform Commission’s report found that “the justice system is failing to meet the twin goals of access to justice and accountability”.

For three years,I tried to navigate a system where sex crimes have been effectively decriminalised

A new report found “the justice system is failing to meet the twin goals of access to justice and accountability”. So where are the groundbreaking reforms?

  • Sonia Orchard

Louise Milligan on the monster priest no one will grieve

Paedophile Gerald Ridsdale,who died last week,was convicted of abusing 70 children. But those who enabled his sick crimes are just as culpable,Louise Milligan tells Fitz.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Ballarat Grammar principal Adam Heath said at least 10 current senior students had a “perverse sense of justice”.

40 years ago,I was abused at Ballarat Grammar. I know first-hand that change is possible

My school reunion took me back to my worst experiences at my alma mater. These new allegations of student-on-student abuse are shocking,but eerily familiar to those who experienced similar “rituals”.

  • Michael Short
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The trial begins on Monday.

Former French surgeon on trial for raping or abusing 299 children

France is set to hold its largest-ever child sex abuse trial of a former surgeon who kept diaries to document decades of sexual violence against children.

Graham Kay in 2018.

North Shore Rapist charged after allegedly assaulting girl in Sydney’s CBD

Notorious rapist Graham James Kay allegedly sexually touched a teenage girl in Sydney’s CBD on Friday,just months after a court was warned he would never be rehabilitated.

  • Perry Duffin andAngus Thomson
Paul Levey was one of Ridsdale’s victims.

‘I hope he rots in hell’:Paul’s relief over death of notorious paedophile priest

The 90-year-old disgraced Catholic priest Gerald Ridsdale had been in prison since 1994 for sexually abusing more than 70 children.

  • Melissa Cunningham andCameron Houston
Ribbons attached to the fence of a Victorian primary school in support of victims of historical sexual abuse.

‘We failed these children’:Education department apologises to two child sex-abuse victims

The minister has said sorry after victims of a paedophile teacher were subjected to “shocking” failures by the Department of Education.

  • Noel Towell,Hannah Hammoud andCaroline Schelle