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THE horrific extent of sex abuse against children in state care over four decades has been revealed in the 600-page report of the Mullighan inquiry to State Parliament in 2008. Then the findings were suppressed for 80 years. Only 70 to go! Note that this Inquiry was only into children who were wards of the State.Reading recently some suppression orders have no expiry at all but which case 70yrs? Snowtown or Von Einem?
The Mullighan Inquiry or Mullighan Royal Commission was a three-year inquiry into the abuse of children in the care of the South Australian Government that started in November 2004, at a cost of 13.5 million dollars.
Mullighan said he had been totally unprepared for the "foul undercurrent of society" which had perpetrated child sex abuse against Wards of the State between the 1940s and 1980s.
Labor SA put an 80 year Suppression Order on a lot of the Mullighan Inquiry, all who were named by the Victims and were given protection from prosecution by Labor SA.