‘A crime not to go home’: 24-hour curfews forcing Queensland children to live with violent offenders

One 12-year-old boy subject to a 24-hour curfew had police come to his address at least 13 times in 17 days. Photograph: Ben Sanders/The Guardian

Last month, Queensland police officers went to the address of 12-year-old Noah Jackson at least 13 times in 17 days to check if he was home.

Noah (a pseudonym from the children’s court) is an Indigenous boy with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, living at a residential care home in the state’s west. He is also one of an increasing number of Queensland children ordered to abide by a 24-hour home curfew.