A legal loophole may allow convicted ACT child sex predator Stephen Mitchell to have his sentence halved on appeal, and Attorney General Shane Rattenbury has told the distressed and emotionally scarred victim-survivors he cannot act to prevent it happening.
An abuse survivor says inaction by the ACT government is certain to cause more trauma for victims, all of whom were between 11 and 16 at the time of Mitchell's offending. At least one still firmly believes that institutions were complicit in allowing the paedophile's offending to continue for years.
