Lee McIntosh will never forget the night a woman knocked at her door and said my son s done something to your daughter.
It was 1994 and her daughter Taryn, 13, had gone to stay the night with a school friend in suburban Melbourne.
But the eighth-grader returned home early and had to be physically supported by her friend s mum.
Slumped in a way that made her look like a floppy doll , Taryn Claut claimed she had been raped by her friend s brother, who was 20. It was the most horrifying thing for a mother to go through, Ms McIntosh said. To think that someone s done that to your little girl and that you ve put or allowed them to be in an unsafe environment.