Historical Child Sexual Abuse

Barry Cable is one of Australian Football’s leading ‘hall-of-famers’. However, current court proceedings mean he is facing allegations of three counts of sexual abuse during his playing and coaching career. 

The historical institutional child sexual abuse of Gerald Ridsdale. Nazareth House, Diocese of Ballarat in the state of Victoria. A call for witnesses.

Koffels Solicitors and Barristers are looking to speak to anyone with information about abuses by Father Patrick Casey and Brother Dominic aka Darcy O’Sullivan.

According to a 2021 poll, two out of three people in Australia reported experiencing sexual harm online before they turned 18, higher than in most other parts of the world.

Accusations against Pell date back to the 1970s and 1980s when he served as a priest in Ballarat, where the Royal Commission heard he was amongst as many as 14 priests who had abused children.

The basis for changing the legal approach to confessional secrecy is the conclusion that religions mask and thus protect perpetrators of child sexual abuse

The importance of DNA evidence in crime investigation in general and historical child sexual abuse specifically, cannot be overstated.

The law in Australia regarding the protection of children from sexual abuse varies and differs from state to state and territory. Each jurisdiction has its characteristics. There are contrasts in who must report when child sexual abuse is suspected, the basis for the duty to report (concern, suspicion, or reasonable belief), what types of neglect and abuse must be reported, and to whom the report should be made.

As of June 2021, nearly 600 child sexual abuse lawsuits have been filed against the Brooklyn Diocese.  These lawsuits were mainly for the diocese’s protection of priests abusing their parishioners, especially children.