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An Aboriginal woman who tried to sue the Queensland government over alleged sexual abuse while in forced state care has been granted leave to appeal in the High Court .The woman, aged 69, had sought more than $1.76 million in damages claiming she suffered psychiatric injury from the state’s negligence in placing her with a foster family in the late 1950s where she was allegedly sexually assaulted between the ages of three and five.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also alleged that, while she was living in state care in the 1960s, she was sent on visits to family members during which she suffered an attempted rape at age six by a teenage relative.The Brisbane Supreme Court last year permanently stayed the woman’s case due to the difficulty in establishing what had happened more than 60 years ago given that both her foster parents and other witnesses who were adults at the time had subsequently died.
Aboriginal Woman Sue Queensland Government Sexual Abuse Forced State Care High Court Damages Psychiatric Injury Negligence Foster Family Sexual Assault
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