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Indigenous child abuse a national disgrace, says Brough
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister says the findings of a report into child sex abuse in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory are an absolute disgrace.
The grim report, released in Darwin today, outlines 97 recommendations and points to alcohol and a lack of education as the biggest contributors to child sex abuse.
The report found Indigenous children are acting out what they have seen in pornographic material and it recommends the tightening of pornography legislation.
Mal Brough says child protection is a state and territory responsibility despite the Commonwealth already injecting $130 million into the problem.
"This is a national disgrace, it's a disaster and it is something that should never happen in this country," he said.
"We should all find it absolutely abhorrent and should be doing everything in our power to fix it."
Mr Brough has also refused to back down from his comments that paedophile rings are operating in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
The report outlines allegations of sex trades and juvenile prostitution but does not mention paedophile rings.
Mal Brough disagrees and says you just have to look at the evidence.
"In the last two months, 13 out of [an] approximate adult population of 90 have been charged with child sex offences against children as young as three with the main offence being penetration of a girl under 13," he said.
The Northern Territory's Chief Minister, Clare Martin, says it will take at least six weeks before she will respond fully to the report, to allow talks with the Commonwealth to get under way.
Inquiry co-chair Pat Anderson has blamed an abundance of alcohol and a lack of education as the major contributors to child sex abuse.
"Where there is unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, drug taking, overcrowding, unemployment, you can guarantee that those children are severely at risk and eventually going to be sexually abused or abused in some way, and that's what's happening," she said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1952739.htm
Indigenous child abuse a national disgrace, says Brough
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister says the findings of a report into child sex abuse in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory are an absolute disgrace.
The grim report, released in Darwin today, outlines 97 recommendations and points to alcohol and a lack of education as the biggest contributors to child sex abuse.
The report found Indigenous children are acting out what they have seen in pornographic material and it recommends the tightening of pornography legislation.
Mal Brough says child protection is a state and territory responsibility despite the Commonwealth already injecting $130 million into the problem.
"This is a national disgrace, it's a disaster and it is something that should never happen in this country," he said.
"We should all find it absolutely abhorrent and should be doing everything in our power to fix it."
Mr Brough has also refused to back down from his comments that paedophile rings are operating in Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory.
The report outlines allegations of sex trades and juvenile prostitution but does not mention paedophile rings.
Mal Brough disagrees and says you just have to look at the evidence.
"In the last two months, 13 out of [an] approximate adult population of 90 have been charged with child sex offences against children as young as three with the main offence being penetration of a girl under 13," he said.
The Northern Territory's Chief Minister, Clare Martin, says it will take at least six weeks before she will respond fully to the report, to allow talks with the Commonwealth to get under way.
Inquiry co-chair Pat Anderson has blamed an abundance of alcohol and a lack of education as the major contributors to child sex abuse.
"Where there is unemployment, poverty, alcoholism, drug taking, overcrowding, unemployment, you can guarantee that those children are severely at risk and eventually going to be sexually abused or abused in some way, and that's what's happening," she said.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200706/s1952739.htm