Abbey’s death spurs efforts to ensure there’s a way out for kids at risk

Writing in the Australian, Trent Dalton discusses the case of suicide by the teen daughter of a convicted pedophile.

According to her mother, Court orders which allowed the father overnight access to his children, providing his current wife or parents were overnighting with him, led directly to the confusion and self-loathing that caused her daughter to take her own life.

Federal Attorney-General ­George Brandis has asked the Family Law Council to explore whether family law judges should be given powers to remove children from parents who abuse or neg­lect them.

Abbey’s death spurs efforts to ensure there’s a way out for kids at risk