Women who have undergone horrible treatment in state care should be listened to

It is a terrifying vision. A 15 -year -old girl, who decided to go to Sydney with a friend, is reported disappeared by her mother worried about Dubbo.

The result? The child is accused, detained in this regard and subjected to invasive medical tests to determine if he had been sexually active – not to trigger a health or assistance response, but to determine if his conduct guaranteed further accusations – that the trauma to date.

Jenny Tuita’s memories from his time to the Metropolitan Girls Shelter in Sydney’s Glebe, as told to Angus Thomson in today’s one Sun-Herald, They are chilling in their Reviewy – Tuita was held at the structure in the 70s.

He believes he is among many girls, now women, who have experienced this traumatic treatment in the shelters who claimed to protect them. The invasive practices he lived took place not only in Glebe, but are, as Thomson reports, widely known in other institutions including Windsor’s Wilson Youth Hospital and the notorious home of the girls of Parramatta.

While the Department of Communities and Justice states that cannot comment on individual cases, Tuita’s lawyer claims that the past attempts to commit with the government were accepted with the topic that the exams were allowed by the law at that moment.

But it has been accepted, in the past, that people are wrong from public institutions – in particular vulnerable people, like children – should be compensated for what they have endured.

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These women are among the many groups of Australians who have scars of police policies and social services of the past, based on racism, classism and sexism, presented as a community security measure.

This week, the state government has shown that it is willing to listen to the concerns of supporters of the well -being of minors for teenagers and even the youngest children who live in state care, even if their concerns were born from what it was – at the time – a legal practice.