AFL legend Carl Ditterich has been charged over allegations of historical child sexual abuse. The 78-year-old former St Kilda star was charged by Victoria Police’s Sexual Offences and Child Abuse Investigation Team last Friday, 9 News reports. He faces three counts of indecent assault and one count of gross indecency.Continue Reading
The government has paid out $1.31bn in redress to institutional child sexual abuse survivors, but legal services advocating for them fear an uncertain and underfunded future unless there is an urgent intervention. In a joint inquiry into the national redress scheme on Monday, MPs and senators heard from the DepartmentContinue Reading
Australia’s online safety regulator has issued a warning to social media giants over concerns about a rise in the spread of violent and extremist material on their platforms, airing warnings about the use of generative AI to facilitate terrorist activity. The eSafety Commission has issued legal notices to Google, Meta,Continue Reading
Lawyers representing a vile pedophile who lured a cognitively impaired child and with his wife sexually abused him over years made a bizarre request before he was jailed on Thursday. Julia Ann Bamforth, 50, and husband Paul Robert Bamforth, 51, were sentenced at Gosford District Court on Thursday over moreContinue Reading
A depraved couple who lured a cognitively impaired child into their home with illicit drugs and filmed themselves sexually abusing him over the course of years will be sentenced in court. Julia Ann Bamforth, 49, and husband Paul Robert Bamforth, 50, faced the first day of sentencing at Gosford DistrictContinue Reading
It was an unseasonably chilly start to the morning when Andrew Carpenter felt himself turn red-hot with rage. As the Adelaide lawyer cast his eyes over the South Australia District Court list for January 25, he noticed a sickening trend. Among the 51 matters to be heard that day, aContinue Reading
Warning: Distressing content A mum whose child was emotionally and sexually abused by a daycare worker has warned other parents about the subtle signs of secret abuse. The mother shared the harrowing experience to a local online parents group, explaining that she wanted to warn other families about dangers occurringContinue Reading
Australian children have been found to be selling sexualised images of themselves to strangers online once they realise there is a market and money to be made. A landmark report released earlier this week into child sexual abuse from the University of NSW (UNSW) and Jesuit Social Services found one-in-sixContinue Reading
A senior Victorian Buddhist monk is facing a new allegations of child sexual abuse after media reporting earlier this year. Wearing traditional orange robes, Vijitha Naotunne, 68, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court via videolink from his lawyer’s office on Friday. Representing Mr Naotunne, Joanne Poole said they intended toContinue Reading
Child sexual abuse survivor-advocate Harrison James would describe the last five months with one word: “mind-blowing”. In May, he and fellow survivor-advocate Jarad Grice launched Your Reference Ain’t Relevant, a campaign aimed at barring convicted child sexual abuse perpetrators from receiving “soft and inadequate sentences based on [the use of]Continue Reading