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A mother who violently attacked her eight-week-old daughters, killing one, has been granted a working with children permit to work for her favourite AFL team.
Tina Terlato avoided jail for killing her daughter Amanda inside their suburban home in Melbourne on Anzac Day, 2012.
She also brutally assaulted Amanda s twin Alicia, who will suffer lifelong disabilities.
Terlato has since been given approval to work with children under a new role with the Essendon cheer club, designing banners alongside youngsters - a decision that has left the father of her children disgusted . Every time I see her face when she poses up with AFL players or when I hear about her attending games - it just brings back bad memories, Paul Terlato told the Herald Sun.
Little justice in treatment of alleged abuse victims
By Louise Milligan
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Craig McLachlan, Kyle Daniels, George Pell. Just a handful of men, in 2020, acquitted of sex offences. We must accept the courts decisions, but these sorts of high-profile cases have a chilling effect on people coming forward to complain of already under-reported crimes.
Cardinal Pell, with his lawyer Robert Richter, QC (left), arrives at Melbourne Magistrates Court.
Credit:Joe Armao, Fairfax Media.
However, it is not just acquittals that dissuade complainants, but the often unnecessarily brutal cross-examination style of the typically older, male barristers who defend the accused.