The Latest Breaking News from Ashley Youth Detention Centre

'Given a voice': youth centre victims reach $75m deal

Lawyers representing former detainees who were abused at Tasmania's youth detention centre have reached an in-principle $75 million settlement with the state.

AAP · Jun 21, 2024

Horrifying Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse In Tas Found Alleged Abusers Kept Working W/ Kids

The report found that alleged abusers were essentially defended by authorities and allowed to continue working with children.

Pedestrian.tv · Sep 27, 2023

Sites flagged for troubled detention centre replacement

The Tasmanian government has identified two preferred sites near Hobart for facilities to replace the state's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre.

AAP · Mar 23, 2023

Child inmate at Ashley Youth Detention Centre ruined by incarceration experience, mother tells inquiry

The mother of a boy imprisoned at Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre tells an inquiry her son was "savable" and "a child who still had a future" when he went in — but his ordeal at the prison changed that.

ABC News · Aug 19, 2022

Ashley Youth Detention Centre guards forced child to perform sexual acts to get his medication, inquiry hears

A former child detainee at Tasmania's only youth detention centre tells an inquiry he was made to perform sexual acts on guards in exchange for his ADHD medication, with counsel assisting calling the centre, which still operates, a "monster".

ABC News · Aug 18, 2022

Brett never felt unsafe with his father, but he was taken away anyway — and it 'destroyed his life'

When Brett Robinson was taken away from his father as a child, he was told it was only for a few days — but it was much longer, and he says it "destroyed [his] life".

ABC News · Jun 17, 2022

Mother tells Tasmania's child abuse commission of inquiry of feeling ignored, belittled by Launceston hospital staff

A mother increasingly frantic over what was happening to her daughter at a Tasmanian hospital says she called a child safety service because she did not know who else to turn to.

ABC News · May 3, 2022

Mother tells Tasmania's commission of inquiry about how paedophile nurse James Griffin gained family's trust

A Tasmanian mother speaks of her anguish at reading in a newspaper about allegations against now notorious paedophile nurse James Griffin, years after her daughter's death.

ABC News · May 2, 2022