If not for the tenacity of staff and victim-survivors of child sexual abuse raising concerns about the "substantial" failures at the Launceston General Hospital, those failures would have gone unknown and unaddressed, Tasmania's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry has heard.
On the commission's final day of public hearings in Hobart, counsel assisting the commission Elizabeth Bennett SC spoke about the hospital's response to allegations of child sexual abuse, including those made against nurse James Geoffrey Griffin, who was charged in 2019 — years after the first complaint was made about him — and who died by suicide later that year.
