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Task Force Argos is a branch of the Queensland Police Service, responsible for the investigation of online child exploitation and abuse. [1] [2] Founded in 1997, the unit's original charter was to investigate institutional child abuse allegations arising from the Forde Inquiry.
Australia's top attorneys agreed on Friday to standardise laws across the country forcing priests to report child abuse revealed to them during confessions in a move that could widen a schism ...
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was a royal commission announced in November 2012 [1] and established in 2013 by the Australian government pursuant to the Royal Commissions Act 1902 to inquire into and report upon responses by institutions to instances and allegations of child sexual abuse in Australia ...
The National Redress Scheme (NRS) was established in 2018 by the Australian Government as a result of a recommendation by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. It aims to offer redress to survivors via three elements: [ 1 ]
Also, in December 2008, a New South Wales Supreme Court judge, Justice Michael Adams, ruled to uphold a magistrate's decision that a pornographic cartoon parodying characters on The Simpsons (Bart and Lisa) was child pornography, because "[i]t follows that a fictional cartoon character, even one which departs from recognisable human forms in some significant respects, may nevertheless be the ...
Dante Arthurs (born 1987) – raped and murdered a child in a shopping centre in 2007. [10] Sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 13 years. [11] Robert Bropho (1930–2011) – an Australian Aboriginal rights activist and convicted serial child sex offender from Perth, Western Australia. He was jailed for three years in 2008 ...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A tip from U.S. authorities has exposed a major child sex abuse ring in Australia with links to the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe and New Zealand, police said on ...
The Department for Child Protection was part of the Government of Western Australia. It was created in response to a critical review of the Department of Community Development in January 2007. [1] [2] At the time of its establishment, the government also mandated reporting of child sexual abuse.