The inquiry investigating child sexual abuse at Tasmania's only youth prison is told by a former female detainee she was preyed upon by male inmates and staff at the facility — and that the experience had left her 'without words' to express herself.
Abused, miserable and locked up, Charlotte* turned to self-harm — but when she was caught by a youth worker, the response was far from kind.Abuse at Ashley has been the focus of recent hearings by the Commission of Inquiry into the Tasmanian Government's Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Institutional SettingsShe alleges sexual abuse by other inmates, as well as by prison staff
"He'd come and sit at the table and play cards with me and he'd start feeling my legs under the table.She told the commission he would "sleazily" touch her and her friend's breasts.
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