Tag: sexual assault
-
Sexual assault in Australia
—
in ResourcesAustralian Government – Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Published August 2020 Click on the link to view
-
‘Don’t call predators pedophiles’ ABC tells reporters in leaked email
—
in NewsABC reporters in Tasmania have been told to “avoid” referring to child sex abusers as pedophiles, to avoid marginalising people with pedophilia. An email sent to all news staff this week advises against the use of the term “pedophile”, even to describe those who have serially abused children over many years. The edict followed a…
-
Karen White: how ‘manipulative’ transgender inmate attacked again
—
Transgender politics – like any politics – can be divisive. Yet in the case of Karen White, who is legally still a man but was put in a female-only prison, both sides of the transgender rights debate are united in the belief mistakes were made. White entered the UK prison system as transgender. However, despite dressing…
-
Outrage over Oxfam investigations into paedophiles, sexual misconduct …
—
By Isla MacGregor Yesterday’s news about NGO Oxfam’s 2011 internal investigation into allegations against some staff over sexual abuse, harassment and illegal use of prostitutes revealed a totally abhorrent culture within some elements of the world-renowned aid organisation. Several staff members who worked with Oxfam in Chad and Haiti between 2006 and 2010 have been…
-
Sex offender’s sentence must be appealed
By Isla MacGregor On 23 December we read in the Mercury that Darren John Fenton, 48, received a suspended sentence after being found guilty of the indecent assault of two 13-year old girls on the East Coast last year. The manifestly inadequate sentence, delivered by Justice Helen Wood, is a sorry indictment of the Tasmanian…