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Vanessa Brown
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TARA refuses to keep Milo in her house.
Because for her, the green tin resembles the night she lost her innocence; and a moment of horror that still keeps her awake at night 26 years on.
When Tara was just four years old, her parents made the decision to join the Jehovah’s Witness organisation, which is currently at the centre of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
The Jehovah’s Witness organisation relied on outdated policies and practices, including a 2000-year-old two-witness rule, the royal commission found.
Tara’s abuse is an example of no-one believing the then eight-year-old because she was the only witness to the ordeal.
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