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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Ben Smee

‘Shocked and saddened’: Queensland attorney general concerned by police failure to investigate alleged gang rape

Karen Iles
Karen Iles says a failure by police in Queensland and NSW to investigate multiple alleged sexual assaults she suffered as a teenager caused her ‘unspeakable trauma’. Photograph: David Kelly/The Guardian

Queensland’s attorney general says she was “shocked and saddened” by revelations that police failed to investigate a series of alleged sexual assaults against a 14-year-old girl, and has raised the matter with the state’s police minister.

Guardian Australia revealed on Tuesday that police failed to investigate the case, lost key documents, and later wrongly told the complainant that her 2004 statement had been destroyed.

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