Anger over 12-year-old prostituted girl prompts calls for law change

On Monday I ran here  a guest blog post by Caroline S. Taylor, Foundation Chair in Social Justice and Head of the Social Justice Research Centre at Edith Cowan University, on the case of the 12-year-old Tasmanian girl forced into prostitution by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, while in the care of community protection […]

A child failed: how 120 men got away with the sexual violation of a 12-year-old girl

“In a case involving the relentless sexual, emotional, and psychological abuse of a child, the men are protected” A 12-year-old Tasmanian girl is forced into prostitution by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend, while in the care of community protection workers. They advertise her as “Angela, 18”. She is allegedly used by at least 120 men […]