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The Children in State Care Commission of Inquiry (the Mullighan Inquiry) was established in November 2004 to investigate allegations of sexual abuse and death from criminal misconduct of children in State care.
The Hon Ted Mullighan, QC, former justice of the Supreme Court, was appointed as Commissioner. Commissioner Mullighan submitted his final report to the Governor of South Australia on 31 March 2008.
There were 809 hearings over the inquiry's three years, and their evidence has led to the police investigation of 434 alleged abusers, 14 of which went before the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Prefacing his 564-page report, the commissioner wrote "Nothing prepared me for the foul undercurrent of society revealed in the evidence to the inquiry, I had no understanding of the widespread prevalence of the sexual abuse of children in South Australia and its frequent devastating and often lifelong consequences for many of them."
80 year suppression orders were placed over most of the detail.
There is an active drive to have those suppression orders lifted.
Eventually, abusers and paedophiles became so emboldened they would ring care facilities and demand certain children be let out. It really is awful reading.
The Hon Ted Mullighan, QC, former justice of the Supreme Court, was appointed as Commissioner. Commissioner Mullighan submitted his final report to the Governor of South Australia on 31 March 2008.
There were 809 hearings over the inquiry's three years, and their evidence has led to the police investigation of 434 alleged abusers, 14 of which went before the Director of Public Prosecutions.
Prefacing his 564-page report, the commissioner wrote "Nothing prepared me for the foul undercurrent of society revealed in the evidence to the inquiry, I had no understanding of the widespread prevalence of the sexual abuse of children in South Australia and its frequent devastating and often lifelong consequences for many of them."
80 year suppression orders were placed over most of the detail.
There is an active drive to have those suppression orders lifted.
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Eventually, abusers and paedophiles became so emboldened they would ring care facilities and demand certain children be let out. It really is awful reading.