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Expunging the Criminal Records of Kids in Care Does Not Absolve the State’s Injustices Against Them
While Victoria is the only jurisdiction to have tackled this issue, it is not an exclusively Victorian problem.
In the Victorian parliament last week, legislation was introduced to address a “serious historical injustice” that saw thousands of vulnerable children in state care treated as criminals.
The Victorian government will expunge the records of people who were separated from their families and placed in state care. Up until 1989, when the law was changed, these children were regarded as criminals simply for being born into a family that, for whatever reason, wasn’t able to take care of them.