No solace for child sex abuse victims as law and human rights 'intersect'

For more than a year ACT Justice and Community Services was aware of the glitch in Crimes Act legislation which would give sex predators in the territory access to shorter sentences but nothing was done to remedy the issue.

WATCH: Victim-survivor Elizabeth Hall was one of six girls who were groomed and abused by convicted paedophile Stephen Mitchell. Picture by Sitthixay Ditthavong

JACS confirmed in a statement that it was made aware of the legislative issue in 2022 by the ACT Director of Public Prosecutions.