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29 June 2016

NT attorney general recounts abusive childhood and says: 'Do not become a victim'

John Elferink tells parliament that as a police officer he used to raid places he had been raped in his youth, in the hope of ‘rescuing any other child’
The Northern Territory attorney general has used his farewell speech to parliament to recount his experience as a child sexual abuse survivor and tell others not to “become a victim”.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jun/28/nt-attorney-general-recounts-abusive-childhood-and-says-do-not-become-a-victim