‘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
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.
Coloured ribbons of the loud fence in support of victims of child sexual abuse at Victorian Parliament House in September 2022.“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. “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.stretching from 1967 to 2001.
“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.
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