AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The stories from the first week of public hearings by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse were ones of bureaucratic box ticking, buck passing, administrative laxity and echoes of the Keystone cops.
However the real story was how that depressing mix allowed a man, known to police as a possible child abuser, to prey on some of Australia’s most vulnerable kids – Aboriginal children in care.
Steve ‘Skip’ Larkins, 47, is now in jail for child pornography, indecent assault and forgery. He gets out next January.
It took almost two decades to nail him. Across those years there were rumours, whistleblowers, secret compensation payments, an apprehended violence order and a DPP recommendation for prosecution that came to nothing.
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