Tasmania Police considers abuse apology

AUSTRALIA
Great Lakes Advocate

Chris Clarke
@chrisclarkenews

17 Jan 2017

Tasmania Police is weighing up a historic apology to child-sex abuse victims in institutionalised care whose cries for help were initially not believed by officers.

Police forces across the country are considering the apology and Tasmania Police said it could follow suit, after the idea was put forward at a meeting between all commissioners of police in Melbourne in September.

It follows the Royal Commission into Institutionalised Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, during which it was revealed many claims of abuse in orphanages Australia-wide fell on deaf ears – and in some instances children who ran away from their ordeals were even returned to their abusers.

But victims will be made to wait until at least December, as police forces wait to hear what findings the Royal Commission will hand down.

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