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#21755336 at 2024-10-13 04:21:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

#36 - Part 122
Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 17
>>21739558 Beaumaris Primary School sexual abuse survivor reaches record $8 million settlement with Victorian government - A survivor of "shocking" sexual abuse at a Melbourne primary school has received what his lawyer has called "the biggest publicly known payment to an abuse survivor in Australia" in an extraordinary $8 million settlement with the Victorian Education Department. The man, who was sexually abused by notorious paedophile Darrell Ray, was among a generation of students who suffered abuse in the 1960s and 70s at Beaumaris Primary School in bayside Melbourne. The man's lawyer, Michael Magazanik of Rightside Legal, said his client had been fighting for justice for most of his adult life and settled the claim a week before it was set to reach Victoria's Supreme Court. "He's been on this path for decades, first pushing for a criminal prosecution for lots of Ray's victims, and then his own fight for proper compensation," Mr Magazanik said. "Of course, it's been a rocky road for him and life hasn't been easy because he's been dealing with entrenched damage. Now he's got what he deserves and we're proud to have fought for him. It's the biggest publicly-known payment to an abuse survivor in Australia. It represents the shocking damage the abuse did and the cost of starting to repair my client's life, starting to put him back in the position he might have been in had the school kept him safe." Speaking to ABC Investigations, the man said he hoped his legal victory would inspire survivors who have lost faith in the justice system. "I'd strongly recommend that victims of sexual abuse get themselves a lawyer and not go down the National Redress path," the man said. "That's the main thing I'd want to get across to other survivors. Trust your lawyer and get what you deserve, not what the government wants to give you. For me, personally, an apology was never going to give me any closure. I was offered twice and said no. Other people might get closure from an apology, but I won't. And the money does not give me closure either - I will never get closure. I wouldn't still be here were it not for finding my faith. And that's not for everyone either. But I had to become a Christian to even have a remote chance of surviving and finding a better way of life."

>>21739573 Video: British YouTuber and rapper Yung Filly extradited to Perth to face allegations of rape - He is accused of assaulting a woman in a hotel room on September 28th 2024. In 2021 Yung Filly was also accused of meeting and texting 17 year old girls when he was 26 and recently he was also seen biting women outside clubs (Allegedly). UPDATE: Yung Filly has been granted bail of $122,000, with conditions that require him to stay in Western Australia until his court appearance in December. He must also report to the police three times a week.

#21739558 at 2024-10-10 08:36:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #37: EVERYTHING IS AT STAKE Edition

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Beaumaris Primary School sexual abuse survivor reaches record $8 million settlement with Victorian government

Russell Jackson - 10 October 2024

A survivor of "shocking" sexual abuse at a Melbourne primary school has received what his lawyer has called "the biggest publicly known payment to an abuse survivor in Australia" in an extraordinary $8 million settlement with the Victorian Education Department.

The man, who was sexually abused by notorious paedophile Darrell Ray, was among a generation of students who suffered abuse in the 1960s and 70s at Beaumaris Primary School in bayside Melbourne.

The man's lawyer, Michael Magazanik of Rightside Legal, said his client had been fighting for justice for most of his adult life and settled the claim a week before it was set to reach Victoria's Supreme Court.

"He's been on this path for decades, first pushing for a criminal prosecution for lots of Ray's victims, and then his own fight for proper compensation," Mr Magazanik said.

"Of course, it's been a rocky road for him and life hasn't been easy because he's been dealing with entrenched damage.

"Now he's got what he deserves and we're proud to have fought for him.

"It's the biggest publicly-known payment to an abuse survivor in Australia.

"It represents the shocking damage the abuse did and the cost of starting to repair my client's life, starting to put him back in the position he might have been in had the school kept him safe."

Speaking to ABC Investigations, the man said he hoped his legal victory would inspire survivors who have lost faith in the justice system.

"I'd strongly recommend that victims of sexual abuse get themselves a lawyer and not go down the National Redress path," the man said.

"That's the main thing I'd want to get across to other survivors.

"Trust your lawyer and get what you deserve, not what the government wants to give you.

"For me, personally, an apology was never going to give me any closure. I was offered twice and said no.

"Other people might get closure from an apology, but I won't. And the money does not give me closure either - I will never get closure.

"I wouldn't still be here were it not for finding my faith. And that's not for everyone either. But I had to become a Christian to even have a remote chance of surviving and finding a better way of life."

'A bunch of adults in charge turned a blind eye'

Mr Magazanik said the abuse epidemic at Beaumaris Primary was a "shocking and monumental failure" and a microcosm of an education system that repeatedly failed to protect children.

"It only happened because a bunch of adults in charge turned a blind eye and the price tag for that blindness is enormous and growing," Mr Magazanik said.

The man's abuser, Darrell Ray, died in November 2023 while awaiting trial on 26 charges of indecent assault upon a male, which followed a lengthy investigation by Victoria Police.

In 2001, Ray pleaded guilty to 27 counts of indecently assaulting 18 male students at Beaumaris Primary School and the Tucker Road Primary School in Moorabbin between 1967 and 1976 and was sentenced to 44 months in prison with a minimum term of 17 months.

The rampant sexual abuse perpetrated by Ray and three other former Beaumaris Primary teachers gained greater attention in 2021 when former AFL star Rod Owen told the ABC his story of abuse by Ray at Beaumaris and in St Kilda's Little League team.

In 2023, Ray and three other paedophile teachers were the focus of the Victorian government's Board of Inquiry into sexual abuse of schoolchildren at Beaumaris Primary and 23 other government schools.

It revealed decades of glaring failures and a "culture that prioritised the reputation of the education system over the safety of children".

In June, responding to the findings of the Beaumaris inquiry, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allen announced a $48 million "truth-telling" process and acknowledged the state's "serious and systematic" failure to protect children in government schools.

"We failed to keep these children safe," Ms Allan said at the announcement.

"We failed to listen when they spoke out. We failed to act to ensure that it did not happen again."

"What should have been a happy place became a place of horror for these victim-survivors."

The government's truth-telling process, which will include the first systematic review of the Victorian Education Department's failings, will be open to survivors of sexual abuse at all government schools and is expected to conclude in 2026.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-10/victorian-government-to-pay-record-sum-to-sexual-abuse-survivor/104448654

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#21049488 at 2024-06-19 13:08:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #36: BADGE OF HONOR Edition

'We failed': Victoria flags truth-telling process for child abuse victims

Bridie Smith and Rachel Eddie - June 19, 2024

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For Glen Fearnett, the past few years have been about hope. Hope that he would be heard. Hope that those who heard would listen. And hope that by speaking out about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child at a Melbourne bayside school, things would change.

On Wednesday, the Allan government announced it would adopt all recommendations in a board of inquiry report that found a cluster of abuse at Beaumaris Primary School in the 1960s and '70s was insidious but not isolated.

Fearnett had pinned his hopes on recommendation three in the board of inquiry's findings, delivered in February.

Of the nine recommendations, this was the one he most wanted to see adopted: a truth-telling process that would give victim-survivors a voice. A chance to be heard in a supportive setting.

"I'm now hopeful that things have changed," Fearnett said, following Premier Jacinta Allan's commitment that survivors of child sexual abuse would be given a platform to tell their stories.

As Fearnett expressed hope, Allan acknowledged failure. Victoria had not kept children safe from a cluster of historical abuse cases at schools, including Beaumaris Primary School.

"We make a clear and simple acknowledgement - we failed," Allan said as she stood beside Deputy Premier Ben Carroll, who is also education minister.

"We failed to keep these children safe. We failed to listen when they spoke out. We failed to act to ensure that it did not happen again," she said.

The statewide independent truth-telling process will hear from victim-survivors about abuse at government schools before 2000.

However, Karen Walker - whose brother Ian Walker was a victim of abuse by Darrell Ray at Beaumaris Primary - said she had concerns for the wellbeing of victim-survivors who participated in the truth-telling process.

Walker said while an important part of justice, truth-telling risked compounding the trauma.

"Truth-telling is a big burden to put on survivors when, potentially, nothing will come from that," she said. "Many survivors have had difficult journeys through the legal system, and it can add to existing trauma."

Walker also described the government's response as political tokenism.

She pointed to recommendations made by the 2017 Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, although a national inquiry, as evidence of a lack of action taken by the Victorian government.

"They're coming out and saying they are going to do something when they have had recommendations for years that they've never responded to," Walker said.

Olivia Nicholls, as an adviser to then Justice Party MP Stuart Grimley, worked with victim-survivor Fearnett and uncovered the extent of abuse at Beaumaris Primary.

She said she was optimistic now that abuse survivors from Beaumaris and other schools had been listened to.

"The Education Department has been disgraceful in dealing with these claims in the past, but with these recommendations, that could change and that's really positive," Nicholls said.

"It will allow all survivors to have their voices heard."

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#20525238 at 2024-03-06 08:14:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

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Around 120 victim-survivors, secondary victims or affected community members shared their experiences with the board of inquiry.

"I remember clearly [thinking] ... 'don't say anything to anyone, you'll be humiliated, you'll be embarrassed, they'll laugh at you. Why didn't you fight back? Why did you just sit there? Why didn't you do anything?'" one victim-survivor told the inquiry.

Another victim-survivor described feelings of shame and humiliation he felt for the sexual abuse they experienced.

"I remember being frozen by these actions and being barely able to breathe," they said.

"Most of all I remember leaving his office and walking back to my seat thinking everyone was staring at me, knowing what had happened, me being bright red. In later years I started calling that walk the 'walk of shame'."

Perpetrators worked at numerous schools across the state

The inquiry found the Department of Education's response to child sexual abuse from the 1960s to the 1990s represented a "catastrophic failing" that was not aligned with community expectations.

It described the department's response as "a series of repeated, systemic and self-reinforcing failures" that included a lack of policies on child sexual abuse, and a culture of prioritising the reputation of schools and teachers over the safety of children.

The report noted there had "been no systemic reviews led by the Department to understand the scope and scale of historical child sexual abuse in government schools from 1960 to today."

In the case of David MacGregor, the department gave him a three-year suspension from teaching roles in 1985, and then offered him a job back in a classroom in 1989.

He remained with the education department until his retirement in 1992, and was in 1994 found guilty of further sexual offences dating back to the 1980s.

MacGregor's victims provided personal accounts of their experiences to the inquiry, recounting how he would invite them to his home and abuse them.

On one occasion at school, MacGregor wore loose shorts and exposed his penis to students for the duration of a class, the inquiry heard.

"We just thought MacGregor was a creep or inappropriate," one witness told the inquiry.

Darrell Ray died in November 2023 while awaiting sentencing for historical child sexual abuse offences.

The inquiry heard details about how Steele was regarded as "a charismatic, suave, sophisticated bloke" who was an influential figure over the children he taught.

One witness testified that he made three separate complaints to police about Steele, and even wore a covert recording device to try and gather evidence against him decades after the offending.

"I was psychologically stuffed after that meeting," the witness said.

Steele, who is now dead, was never convicted.

https://www.beaumarisinquiry.vic.gov.au/

https://www.beaumarisinquiry.vic.gov.au/report

https://content.royalcommission.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-03/Executive_Summary_Digital.pdf

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/report-recommends-apology-for-victorian-abuse-victims-beaumaris/103552184

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#20525232 at 2024-03-06 08:12:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

>>20488608
Victorian child sexual abuse schools inquiry finds teacher linked to abuse of 60 individuals

abc.net.au - 6 March 2024

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A Victorian inquiry into child sexual abuse in state-run schools has found notorious paedophile teacher Darrell Ray was linked to the abuse of 60 children.

The board of inquiry recommended the state government formally apologise to victims and construct a memorial at the school at the centre of the abuse.

It examined child sexual abuse at Beaumaris Primary School in Melbourne's south-east and 23 other state-run schools from 1960 to 1999.

The inquiry delivered its findings at the end of February and the report has now been tabled in parliament.

Among its nine recommendations are that the government issue a statewide apology, delivered in parliament, in the presence of victims of abuse, specifically addressing the abuse at Beaumaris Primary School.

It also calls on the government to work with victim-survivors to construct a memorial at Beaumaris Primary School to acknowledge historical child sexual abuse in government schools.

The inquiry's other recommendations include:

- a statewide truth-telling and accountability process for survivors

- a restorative engagement program for victims who cannot or do not want to make a civil claim or National Redress Scheme claim

- improving access to information and records through the Department of Education

- a new online hub and phone line for victim-survivors to access information

- improved co-ordination and advocacy support for victim-survivors

- a formal peer support program for adult survivors of child sexual abuse

- legislative reform to protect personal information provided to boards of inquiry

Premier Jacinta Allan said the government would continue to engage with victim-survivors when considering its response to the report.

"Carrying these stories is a heavy burden, and while I know it won't undo the pain, I hope that in sharing their experience, that it has given victim-survivors at Beaumaris Primary and certain other government schools the recognition and support they deserve," she said in a statement.

Notorious teacher linked to dozens of alleged victims

The inquiry was established in the wake of revelations about four teachers who committed abuse between the 1960s and 1990s.

The perpetrators have been identified as David Ernest Keith MacGregor, Grahame (Graham) Harold Steele, Darrell Ray and another man who cannot be identified for legal reasons.

The men all taught at Beaumaris Primary School. They also had various stints at schools around Victoria, including in Melbourne's outer east, Warragul and Phillip Island.

The report said, based on evidence given to the inquiry, there were child sexual abuse allegations linked to Ray involving 60 individuals.

MacGregor is linked to the abuse of 13 individuals, and Steel is alleged to have abused eight individuals.

The fourth teacher, who cannot be named, is linked to allegations of abuse involving 28 individuals.

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#20488608 at 2024-02-28 09:19:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

Horror stories of multiple paedophiles at Beaumaris Primary barely scratch surface of statewide crisis, survivors say

Russell Jackson - 28 February 2024

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One survivor has called it "mind-boggling" and "beyond belief".

A lawyer for victims says it was "calculated" and "covered up, just like in the Catholic Church".

And on Monday, a small but important step was taken in addressing the Victorian Department of Education's historical child sexual abuse crisis.

After six months examining decades of crimes against students in state-run schools, the government-initiated inquiry leading the investigation delivered its findings to the Victorian governor.

The government has not said when it will make the report and its response public.

Warning: This story contains references to child sexual abuse

Although the inquiry has uncovered shocking evidence during public hearings that the Victorian Education Department knowingly shuffled paedophile teachers around the state and endangered children, its scope was limited to a cluster of offenders who taught at Beaumaris Primary School in Melbourne's bayside south-east.

Active civil claims and convictions suggest that more than 100 government schools may be affected.

Survivors, advocates and lawyers have claimed the inquiry was only ever going to scratch the surface of a statewide crisis that was at its worst between the 1960s and 1990s.

They say it needs to be broadened.

"I hope that the inquiry recommends that there is a further investigation so we can get to the whole truth," Beaumaris Primary survivor Glen Fearnett told ABC Investigations.

"The truth needs to be told and the community needs and deserves to know."

Beaumaris Primary, whose beachside location and close-knit community were attractive to young parents in the post-war decades, was the focus of the inquiry due to the startling amount of sexual abuse that occurred there in the 60s and 70s.

In the early 70s, four prolific offenders overlapped at the school.

But in lengthy careers with the Victorian Education Department, those teachers were also shuffled elsewhere, teaching at a combined 24 Victorian government schools between the 50s and 90s.

Grahame Steele

The oldest of the offenders was Grahame Steele, a tall and imposing former footy star who is accused of sexually abusing boys for decades on school grounds and at a holiday house in Inverloch, south-east of Melbourne.

Despite the attempts of a survivor to have Steele charged by police while he was still working in a school as a principal, his government school career spanned from 1952 to 1990 and he was never prosecuted before dying in 2013.

Evidence presented at the inquiry suggests Steele continued offending in the period after he was reported to police.

Darrell Ray

In November last year, the most infamous of the Beaumaris offenders, Darrell Ray, died while facing dozens of new charges.

Ray was the librarian and sports coach at Beaumaris Primary.

In the 60s and 70s, Ray rampantly abused boys at four state schools and in the St Kilda Football Club's little league team, which he coached for 11 years.

In 1979 and 2001, Ray was convicted of a combined total of 33 offences against 21 boys.

But the ABC's investigations and civil lawsuits against the Victorian Education Department have revealed that he likely abused many more.

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#20092875 at 2023-12-18 10:07:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #34: UNITED AGAINST THE INVISIBLE ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY Edition

#33 - Part 36
Child Sexual Abuse, Pedophilia, Human Trafficking and Satanism Investigations - Part 3
>>19946835 World's largest child sexual abuse perpetration prevalence study recommends significant investment in early intervention measures - The first nationally representative research into the prevalence of child sexual offending behaviours and attitudes has shed unprecedented light on sexually abusive behaviours and feelings among Australian men. Released by UNSW Sydney and Jesuit Social Services, the study reveals that of the community sample surveyed, one in five Australian men reported sexual feelings towards children and/or have sexually offended against children, with one-third of those who have thoughts towards children motivated to access help. The largest study of its kind ever undertaken globally, "Identifying and understanding child sexual offending behaviour and attitudes among Australian men", measures the prevalence of risk behaviours and attitudes regarding child sexual offending among a representative sample of 1,945 Australian men aged 18 to over 65.
>>19952108 Video: Queensland teacher Gregory Norman faces hundreds of child abuse charges - A teacher charged with more than 200 exploitation offences relating to 24 girls was arrested just weeks after child protection group Bravehearts visited local schools. Teacher Gregory Steven Norman, 35, faced Cairns Magistrates Court on Monday where prosecutors alleged they found 260,000 child exploitation images on his electronic devices. He was first charged with five offences on November 10 after police followed a tip-off and swooped on a school to arrest the Redlynch teacher and seize his technology devices. Investigators from the Queensland Police Service's internationally renowned Task Force Argos assisted with further investigations that led to another 200 charges on Saturday.
>>19952116 Cairns teacher Greg Norman fronts court on child abuse charges - A teacher from Redlynch has been charged with more than 200 child sex offences involving at least 24 girls after 260,000 exploitation images were allegedly found on his electronic devices. Detectives arrested 35-year-old Greg Norman after allegedly finding additional child exploitation material on his electronic devices on November 18 after Cairns Child Protection and Investigation Unit detectives executed a search warrant and seizing electronic devices belonging to Mr Norman on November 10. Mr Norman applied for bail in court on Monday before a packed galley of parents and relatives of the alleged victims.
>>19964342 Notorious paedophile school teacher and football coach Darrell Ray dies with court date looming - Notorious paedophile Darrell Vivian Ray has died, denying abuse survivors closure that might have come from imminent criminal court proceedings against the former school librarian and sports coach.
>>19970226 'Predatory' former MP Milton Orkopoulos learns fate for child sex abuse offences - Disgraced former MP and twice-convicted pedophile Milton Orkopoulos has been jailed for 20 years for "calculated, predatory, and manipulative" child sex offences. The former NSW Labor member for Swansea and minister for Aboriginal affairs appeared in the NSW District Court on Friday to learn his fate for sexually abusing four boys between 10 and 15 years old. Earlier this year, a jury determined he was guilty of 26 charges relating to the sexual abuse of the boys in the Lake Macquarie region and on the NSW Mid North Coast between 1993 to 2003. The court was told the 66-year-old used his powerful position in the community to groom his victims and ply them with drugs before abusing them. On Friday, Judge Jane Culver sentenced him to at least 13 years behind bars, with a maximum sentence of 20 years, for the "calculated, predatory and manipulative" offences.

#18187134 at 2023-01-21 11:58:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #27: THEY ARE IN FULL BLOWN PANIC MODE Edition

'No one wants to talk to us': victims of child sexual abuse from Victoria state schools fight for justice

'We believe you, we support you,' Daniel Andrews said after George Pell's death, but those abused in the state's government schools are still waiting for an apology

Benita Kolovos - 21 Jan 2023

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Following the death of George Pell, Victoria's premier, Daniel Andrews, issued a message to victims of child sexual abuse that was widely praised: "We see you, we believe you, we support you."

But this hasn't been the experience of Glen Fearnett, who has been fighting for recognition from the government for the abuse he says he and other children suffered at the hands of paedophile teachers at state schools in the 1970s.

During Fearnett's time at Beaumaris primary school, in Melbourne's south-eastern suburbs, it is believed three teachers on staff were abusing children. The number of former students coming forward is still rising, with police currently investigating allegations.

Despite this, the government and department of education have never publicly apologised to victims. Instead, it has pursued what has been described as an "aggressive" defence of civil claims, dragging out proceedings and upsetting victims in the process.

"I absolutely 100% support the sentiment of the [premier's] statement but it was frustrating, as we've been trying to get some sort of recognition for what we've been through for months and months and haven't received it," Fearnett told Guardian Australia.

"We've been trying for a very long time with pretty much no response. Silence.

"No one wants to talk to us."

Locking the pain away

Fearnett was 10 when he says he was abused by teacher Gary Mitchell in 1972.

He didn't tell a soul until four decades later, when he saw an ABC article in which former classmate Rod Owen, who went to play football for St Kilda, detailed allegations of abuse by Mitchell's brother-in-law and fellow teacher, Darrell Ray, and St Kilda Little League team manager, Albert Briggs.

"My wife came up to the kitchen and saw me - I'm a blubbering mess - and asked me what was going on, and it was the first time I'd ever told anyone," Fearnett says.

"It was in a compartment in my brain ... I knew what was in the box and I never went near it. I didn't open it.

"As soon as I started to talk, I couldn't put the lid back on it. It just spilled over. It was a bit of a shock."

Fearnett is one of several Beaumaris victims currently pursuing legal action against the department of education. The Guardian spoke to two others who asked not to be named, who also came forward after the ABC report.

"When I look at our grade 6 class photo, at those young, smiling faces and I think of how many of our lives have been affected by this, some ruined by it, it just breaks my heart," one said.

Since the late 1990s, Mitchell has been sentenced five times for child sex offences stretching from 1967 to 2001.

Ray, his brother-in-law, pleaded guilty in 2000 to 27 counts of indecently assaulting 19 boys at two schools between 1967 and 1976.

Mitchell and Ray's time at Beaumaris primary overlapped with a third teacher, Graeme Steele, now deceased, who is also accused of having abused former students.

Offenders not confined to one school

The horrors at Beaumaris primary were not isolated. Lawyer Grace Wilson helped win millions of dollars in compensation for victims of two other paedophiles who were knowingly moved between Victorian schools.

"The state has a long sordid history of shuffling paedophiles from post to post, prioritising the reputations of abusive teachers at the expense of the children they were supposed to educate and protect," Wilson told Guardian Australia.

"The only way to make the state pay proper compensation is to build a strong legal case and force it out of them."

In addition to the private civil claims made, hundreds of victims have applied to the national redress scheme. Of the 1,639 applications made to the scheme as of May 2022 concerning abuse in Victorian government settings, 318 were related to schools.

Lawyer John Rule from Maurice Blackburn is handling several cases against the department on behalf of Beaumaris primary victims. He said the education department had developed a reputation for being "aggressive" in defending claims.

"They run these cases like an insurance company would and they use all sorts of strategies and gamesmanship," Rule said, adding that his firm has given up trying to resolve matters outside of court.

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#13830203 at 2021-06-04 20:37:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #16 - INFILTRATION NOT INVASION Edition

AFL child sexual abuse scandal widens to include paedophile coach at Carlton

The AFL historic child sexual abuse scandal has widened to include a second club whose 1970s Little League program was overseen by a paedophile coach.
Key points:

An ABC Sport investigation has found Carlton's Little League team was coached by a paedophile for five seasons in the 1970s
It follows the revelation that paedophile Darrell Ray ran the St Kilda Little League team for 11 seasons in the same era
The scandal began when former St Kilda star Rod Owen disclosed his abuse at the hands of Ray, prompting dozens of survivors to share their stories

An ABC Sport investigation has discovered that Carlton's Little League team was coached and managed for five seasons between 1973 and 1977 by John Dennis Morice, a prolific paedophile who was later convicted on numerous occasions for the sexual abuse of schoolboy footballers he coached.

Under the VFL's (now AFL) rules for the Little League competition, clubs were required to select at least 100 boys per season, meaning hundreds of Carlton players were coached by a sex offender whose crimes were once described by a County Court Judge as "depraved, sickening and repugnant".

ABC Sport has spoken to a number of former Carlton Little League players who were sexually abused by Morice, who died in 2016. A lauded, popular and successful coach, Morice led the Carlton Little League team for more than 100 games, steering the Blues' Under-11s to multiple grand final appearances.

Morice received convictions for the sexual abuse of boys in 1978, 1981, 1991, 2004 and 2006, the latter being historical cases to address abuse that victims had taken decades to report.

In 2004, when Morice pleaded guilty to five counts of indecently assaulting a child under 16, County Court Judge Geoff Chettle described the crimes as being "towards the top of the range", and sentenced Morice to two years in jail with a non-parole period of 10 months.

Before jailing Morice, Judge Chettle said: "You preyed upon young, vulnerable and impressionable boys."

In the past fortnight, ABC Sport has spoken to several former Carlton Little League players who have never previously shared the stories of their abuse.

"It [playing for Carlton] was probably a high point of my football," one says.

"But there was the loss of that for me.

"I can't separate the good times and some of the friends I made with what actually happened to me."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-05/afl-scandal-widens-paedophile-coach-carlton-john-dennis-morice/100187148