AUSTRALIA
The Australian
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Amos Aikman
Northern Correspondent
Darwin
MORE victims of a convicted sex offender who allegedly abused Stolen Generation and other children at a Darwin missionary home in the 1960s and 70s are afraid to come forward because they have lost faith in the legal system, former residents say.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard evidence a series of failures by police and the Northern Territory Director of Public Prosecutions led to cases against pedophile Donald Henderson being dropped.
Henderson, convicted of abusing two boys at a Darwin swimming pool in the 80s, was never prosecuted for sex crimes he allegedly committed while working as a “house parent” at Retta Dixon Home, despite at one stage facing more than 80 charges.
Legal representatives of former Retta Dixon children told the commission — which yesterday heard submissions on what it should find — that children in Henderson’s care had suffered a “horror show” of abuse.
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