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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Benita Kolovos

‘No one wants to talk to us’: victims of child sexual abuse from Victoria state schools fight for justice

Glen Fearnett who was a victim of sexual abuse as a child is speaking about historic child sexual abuse in Victorian public schools.
‘We’ve been trying to get some sort of recognition for what we’ve been through for months and months and haven’t received it,’ Glen Fearnett says. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

Following the death of George Pell, Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, issued a message to victims of child sexual abuse that was widely praised: “We see you, we believe you, we support you.”

But this hasn’t been the experience of Glen Fearnett, who has been fighting for recognition from the government for the abuse he says he and other children suffered at the hands of paedophile teachers at state schools in the 1970s.

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