AUSTRALIA
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There are those who support and advocate for victims of child sexual abuse. There are also those who get them justice. Most of the Australian general public are familiar with the part played by Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox (see previous postings), revealed during the New South Wales State Government enquiry which finished recently.
The media has unearthed the role played by his counter-parts in the Victorian state system, and dubbed them the “paedophile catchers”.
[Most of the following comes from reports in the Warrnambool Standard newspaper and NewsCorp publications, and is provided for the record, in the light of the mixed assessment of Victorian Police, in the past, contained in the report.]
Detective Senior Sergeant, Chris O’Connor, recently retired after having been Victoria State Police’s child sex expert for decades. He has given his views on the report of the Victorian State Parliamentary enquiry into clerical child sexual abuse in that state, which was released this week (see previous postings).
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