AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A house parent at Retta Dixon House while sexual abuse of children was allegedly taking place said it wasn’t her ‘responsibility’ what was happening to children not in her care.
Meanwhile former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma has provided a statement to the Royal Commission, denying allegations he knew of the abuse and did nothing.
Lola Wall told the Royal Commission in to Institutional Responses in to a Child Sexual Abuse in Darwin that she knew about the serious allegations of rape and sexual assault allegedly carried out by fellow house-parent Don Henderson.
But she didn’t think she had to speak out.
Mrs Wall did however, stop the children in her care, as well as her own three children from spending any time alone with Henderson.
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