Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institution
MEDIA RELEASE: Tasmanian Commission of Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Launched
Thursday 13 May 2021
With wide-ranging powers equal to that of a Royal Commission, the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government’s Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional Settings was launched today.
The last Tasmanian Royal Commission was held in 1992.
The Commission of Inquiry will investigate child sexual abuse within the State Service and explore ways the Government can better protect Tasmanian children.
Three eminent Commissioners have been appointed to the role:
The Honourable Marcia Neave AO, Commission President and former Supreme Court Judge
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Keelie McMahon was 14 when she alleges she was sexually abused by family friend and nurse, James Geoffrey Griffin.
The now-24-year-old has been telling her story to encourage other survivors of child sexual abuse to speak out. I’m doing it to help other people that have gone through it, so they can get the courage to come forward and talk about what’s happened to them as well, she told SBS News.
In 2019 five woman came forward and made historic complaints of sexual abuse against James Griffin, ranging from the late 1980s through to 2012. He started getting charged for all these different things, more people came forward, and then all of a sudden it just stopped, because he committed suicide, and that was the end of it, Ms McMahon said.
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A doctor accused of raping an 11-year-old girl in Tasmania was banned from treating female patients only after an interstate medical board received a separate complaint.
Key points:
The doctor is still registered to work but is not allowed to treat girls or women
That alleged incident was investigated internally and referred to police five months later by her parents
Zoe detailed the allegations in detail to the police in a letter when she was 12
The doctor is still registered to work but is not allowed to treat girls or women except in an emergency, after he was deemed an unacceptable risk to their safety.
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Subscriber only SENSATIONAL claims of cover ups and corruption in one of Tasmania s major hospitals have come to light, as a man breaks his silence over another alleged paedophile nurse. Ben Felton, 44, was abused by a nurse in Launceston General Hospital as a teenager, according to independent journalist Camille Bianchi, in her podcast The Nurse, where last year she revealed the horrific crimes of James Geoffrey Griffin. Launceston General Hospital nurse James (Jim) Geoffrey Griffin. SOURCE: SUPPLIED Griffin was charged with a dozen child sex abuse offences after 30 years working at the hospital. He committed suicide shortly after he was charged.
New allegations of historic sexual abuse at Launceston General Hospital
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Ben Felton says he has self-harmed, self-medicated, I have tried to run away but no more.
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Five minutes of alleged sexual abuse perpetrated against Ben Felton when he was only 13 has had a profound impact on the now 44-year-old s entire life.
Key points:
New allegations have emerged about the Launceston General Hospital s handling of allegations of child sexual abuse
Ben Felton, now 44, says a male nurse sexually assaulted him when he was admitted to the LGH aged 13
The allegations follow the explosive revelations a paedophile nurse continued working at the LGH while under police investigation in 2019