Category Archive for : ‘AUSTRALIA’

July 8, 2020
Melissa Davey
The Guardian

Lawyers for the former Australian school principal Malka Leifer, who is wanted on more than 74 charges of sexually abusing students, have launched an appeal in the Jerusalem high court to a decision that she is mentally fit to stand trial and can be extradited to Australia.

In May, Judge Chana Miriam Lomp said she had accepted the opinion of an expert psychiatric panel that Leifer was fit to face an extradition trial, after prosecutors successfully argued she was feigning mental illness to avoid trial. However, on Wednesday Israel’s

October 30, 2019
Zamira Rahim
Independent

A Chinese film star laughed and slapped a woman as a film producer raped her, a court has heard.
Yunxiang Gao and producer Jing Wang allegedly sexually assaulted the woman in the early hours of 27 March 2018, in a luxury hotel room in Sydney.
A jury at New South Wales District Court heard the woman entered the hotel room with Mr Wang after a party.
She had expected other people to be present in the hotel room.
The complainant said Mr Gao arrived shortly afterwards and the two men forcibly

October 24, 2019
Joanna Menagh
ABC

The marriage of one of WA’s worst sex offenders in one of the key factors why he should not be released from prison because of fears his wife could be added to his long list of victims, the Supreme Court has been told.

Garry Narkle, who is now 64, is fighting an application by prosecutors to have him declared a “dangerous sex offender” and be kept in custody under laws introduced in 2006.

The laws were drafted with him in mind, but were never applied to him.

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October 22, 2019
Carlina Black, Margarita Frederico, Muriel Bamblett
Phys

It’s a year since the national apology to victims and survivors of institutional child sexual abuse. While national apologies can acknowledge survivors, sorry is just the beginning. Access to healing is needed.
Our research shows a program that strengthens culture and connection for Aboriginal survivors can be more meaningful than mainstream counseling. We’ve shown it’s a successful way to deliver cultural healing.
The context is important
There are an estimated 60,000 survivors of institutional child sexual abuse in Australia. Based on the private sessions held as

October 17, 2019
Jacquelin Robson
9 News

A convicted paedophile on parole in Perth’s south-west has been discovered living less than 100m from a public playground.

Busselton driving instructor Peter Wallace Hill walked free this month after serving just two years of his four-year jail term for the sexual penetration of a 13-year-old boy.

Hill and his lover David Lindner were both jailed for the teenager’s abuse.

Lindner had been assaulting the child for months when he invited Hill to take part.

The victim’s father pleaded with the Prisoners Review Board not to release his son’s abuser,

October 2, 2019
Melissa Davey
The Guardian

A Catholic priest who allegedly abused 11 children at a New South Wales college 30 years ago now faces more child sexual abuse charges.

On Tuesday the 78-year-old, who is already before the courts after being charged in April with nine sexual and indecent assaults at a Southern Highlands boarding school, was rearrested and charged with another 18 offences.

These include sexual assault offences, indecent assault offences, and offences of gross indecency.

Police alleged between 1982 and 1989 the priest assaulted 11 children, and committed 27 offences in total. They