AUSTRALIA
The Standard
By EVERARD HIMMELREICH Sept. 21, 2013
THERE has never been a better time for child abuse victims in the south-west to tell their stories because the community is determined to right the wrongs of the past, a leading police officer claims.
That was the message the Victoria Police’s SANO taskforce investigating new and historical allegations of child sexual abuse told a Warrnambool community forum on Thursday night.
Acting Detective Sergeant Tim Kennedy from SANO said he believed the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry and the federal government’s royal commission into child abuse had caused a groundswell change in opinion about the abuse of children in the care of government and non-government organisations.
In a plea to local victims of child abuse, Acting Detective Sergeant Kennedy said the government inquiries had dispelled a lot of doubt in the community about the incidence of child abuse in institutional care.
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