Alysha was hired to introduce better care to the Ashley Youth Detention Centre in Tasmania. It took only days for the first shocking incident to show her what was really going on.
Victoria sees reports of historical abuse skyrocket during coronavirus pandemic
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JanJanuary 2021 at 7:13pm
Spending time in isolation during the pandemic has given some survivors time to process what happened to them.
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An organisation that provides support for survivors has seen an astronomical rise in new clients
Isolation may have made it harder for people to suppress memories of past abuse, an expert says
She alleges she suffered abuse at the hands of a teacher during the 1970s, but has never spoken about what happened to her until now.
She says her time in isolation during the pandemic has given her a chance to process what happened to her as a child.
A Tasmanian woman says she fell pregnant twice to her foster mother’s adult son when she was a homeless teenager in the 1990s. She says she’s still waiting for justice.
Melbourne, Australia – Kym Krasa was just eight years old when she was first sexually abused by a member of the Catholic Church.
A so-called “part” Aboriginal child, she had been taken from her impoverished family and placed in an orphanage.
But instead of being cared for, she was abused, and the abuse would continue for the next decade at the hands of a priest and church parishioners, and as a teenager, by a man for whom she was forced to work as a domestic servant.
It was not until the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was established in 2012 that Krasa, now 67, could finally talk about her experiences. It is now three years since the commission completed its work.