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Katrina Munting civil damages trial over abuse at hands of school teacher hears closing submissions

Lawyers for the state of Tasmania say the state does not accept the abuse stopped Katrina Munting from reaching her full potential. (ABC News: Luke Bowden)

Katrina Munting is coming to the end of her third major legal process since reporting to police in 2018 that she had been sexually abused by one of her high school teachers in the 1990s.

First there was the criminal case against her teacher, Marcus Pollard, now aged 66, who pleaded guilty in 2020 and was convicted of persistent sexual abuse of a young person. He was sentenced to three years in jail.

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