AUSTRALIA
9.com.au
December 10, 2017
Gabrielle Short hopes Australia doesn’t forget. But more than anything she hopes it never happens again.
She is one of the tens of thousands of children sexually abused in more than 4000 Australian institutions.
The children who were not believed or were too scared to tell anyone, often for decades, if ever.
The organisations that turned a blind eye to the abuse as they put their reputation ahead of the protection of children.
The crimes. The cover-ups. The denials. The inaction or inadequate and unjust responses.
A national tragedy perpetuated over generations within many of Australia’s most trusted institutions, to use the words of the judge who led the five-year child abuse royal commission.
This is not a case of a few “rotten apples”.
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