In 2011, Kylee Pearn told the Launceston General Hospital that there was a child abuser working in the children's ward — she knew because he'd abused her years earlier. The paedophile, James Geoffrey Griffin, would continue working there for another eight years.
As an adult, Ms Pearn worked as a social worker in family violence support, and then in 2011 she began a secondment at the Launceston General Hospital , working on the same floor as Griffin."It was incredibly confronting, and on a couple of occasions he approached me and kissed me on the cheek."
"I just thought how incredibly unfair it was that I could protect my child, but no one else in this ward knew that information," Ms Pearn said. Ms Pearn said she told HR that Griffin had sexually abused her and her friend, and that she believed he was a risk on Ward 4K."They said things like 'he will make too much of a fuss if we move him', they told me he was an ANMF member or rep," she told the inquiry.
Ms Pearn said she and her friend spoke to police but did not go through with trying to have Griffin charged, partly because of fear on her part and because she was unsure of the likelihood of a conviction. "I wanted to stop him and keep other children safe, as well as support another person who had come forward."
Then Tasmanian health minister Sarah Courtney announced the inquiry the day after speaking to Ms Pearn.
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