Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Australian National Office

Sexual Abuse in Victoria’s Mental Health Wards Is Bad and Getting Worse

Farrah Tomazin, The Age, 11 December 2017

Worried teenage woman covering her face with hands on the beach.

A victim of child abuse checked herself into a psychiatric unit at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital, where she should have been safe. Instead she was raped by a patient and the police were not called. Vulnerable children and adults continue to be at risk of sexual assault.

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