Over the past three months, Jo-Ellen Hall has made more than 40 phone calls to New South Wales Police over the investigation into her teenage nephew’s bizarre death. All but two of those calls, made in hopes of getting an update on the case and to pass on information MsContinue Reading
The use of good character references by convicted child sex offenders in court will be discussed at a long-awaited NSW Sentencing Council meeting on Wednesday. Last May, child sexual abuse survivor-advocates Harrison James and Jarad Grice launched the Your Reference Ain’t Relevant campaign, which aims to eradicate legislation that allowsContinue Reading
The NSW Attorney-General has conceded there’s “no easy fix” on addressing the causes of the youth crime wave largely engulfing regional communities. Michael Daley faced a grilling over increased rates of youth crime, especially in regional and rural communities, with NSW Premier Chris Minns convening a working group to targetContinue Reading
A rainbow pride flag has been vandalised with a Nazi swastika and NSN symbol, only days out from Mardi Gras.. The defaced ‘pride-themed’ banner was discovered on Monday morning at the North Sydney campus of Macquarie University and quickly attracted hundreds of comments online. “To whomever tagged the banner withContinue 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
In a “triumph” for victim-survivors, the NSW Attorney-General has committed to referring law reform to the Department of Communites and Justice that will prevent convicted perpetrators of child sexual abuse “from getting soft and inadequate sentences based on irrelevant character references”. Michael Daley, along with Minister for the Prevention ofContinue Reading
The NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley will “finally” meet with survivor-advocate Harrison James tomorrow, after months of “persistent” efforts from Harrison to set the meeting up. Harrison – who was molested between the ages of 13 and 16 by his stepmother – is currently fighting, alongside fellow advocate and child sexualContinue Reading
The mother who abandoned her newborn baby in a Sydney backyard has been officially identified by police, with new information shining a light on the circumstances involved. In April, the hours-old baby girl was found naked and covered in birth fluids on the wicker chair of a Blacktown home inContinue Reading
Police believe they have found the mother who dumped her newborn baby in a western Sydney backyard last month. A woman came forward this week who is likely to be the mother, but police are waiting on results of DNA tests for confirmation. The hours-old baby girl was found naked,Continue Reading