Tag Archives: Child abuse

The Tasmanian government settles a group of six historical child sexual abuse cases, with one of the survivors receiving what is thought to be the state's largest child abuse settlement to date.

The 35-year-old Sunshine Coast man has been refused bail and charged with accessing child abuse material using a carriage service, and possessing child abuse material accessed or obtained using a carriage service.

A man has been charged by Australian Federal Police over allegations he sexually abused several boys overseas and sent money to a now-convicted child abuse facilitator.

A 20-year-old Harrison man has been charged with child abuse offences following a search of a property on Wednesday, police say. They said they seized two laptop computers and two mobile phones alleged to contain child abuse material during the search.

A police officer is still under investigation after he found himself on the opposite side of the law for these alleged offences.

Two other men were charged with possessing and distributing child exploitation material (CEM) in separate offences following a five-day Sunshine Coast operation. Police said on Friday a 30-year-old man faced 43 child abuse-related offences,

A police operation targeting the possession and distribution of child exploitation material led to a number of Queensland men being charged with child abuse offences.

Roger Rivo paid $40 to watch a girl in her early teens from the Philippines perform sex acts on camera. The 57-year-old Victorian man was later told that the girl, aged between 13 and 15, had to be taken to hospital after the first recording.

Survivors of institutional child abuse in NSW will now be able to overturn unfair settlement payments after "critical" new laws passed the state parliament. The reforms empower the courts to set aside unfair historic settlement agreements for sexual and serious physical abuse.

The Ainslie Football Club was not the only Australian rules organisation a serial Canberra child abuse criminal used to find a victim, having also offended against a boy he coached at the Belconnen Magpies.