Judge shuns new intervention
Jamie Walker & John Wiseman; 7/5/08
Former Supreme Court judge Ted Mullighan yesterday slapped down the option of federal intervention in South Australia’s troubled Aboriginal homelands, despite finding that at least one in seven children had been sexually assaulted. Mr Mullighan reported that child sex abuse on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands, adjoining the federal intervention zone in the Northern Territory, was “widespread, devastating and a national disgrace”. The inquiry found it likely that upwards of 14 per cent of the 1000 children living in the isolated communities had been raped or molested.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23657905-5013404,00.html
Kids’ sex in school ‘not sign of abuse’; Pia Akerman; 7/5/08; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23657624-5013404,00.html
Victims too afraid; John Wiseman; 7/5/08; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23657620-5013172,00.html
Law of the jungle; Jamie Walker; 7/5/08; http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23656621-5013172,00.html
Tags: Aboriginal, Australia, Sex Trade