AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Nicole Chettle

It is “inconceivable” that a survivor of child sexual abuse was told by the Queensland Department of Public Prosecutions it could not afford to pursue a trial against a convicted sex offender, the organisation’s director has told a royal commission.

Abuse survivor Denis Dodt told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was urged not to proceed with a case against Graham Noyes, who abused him at Enoggera Boys’ Home in Brisbane in the 1960s.

But the current Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Michael Byrne QC has told the commission it was “inconceivable to me that any prosecutor would have ever told a victim that we don’t have the time to conduct a trial”.

The commission heard that 14 people had come forward to say they were assaulted by Noyes, who was a trainee police officer and volunteer…