Hetty’s words are in a video in this link where she is interviewed by a journo ......
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She says that she thinks a public child sex offender register will only help a small percentage of people.
She said with the millions and millions of dollars it will take to establish such a thing, it won’t have the effect that people think it will.
She would like to see a different model introduced, like the WA one where
only the highest risk sex offenders are on a public register. Or someone else’s model where people can call the police and ask (and be told) if someone is on the register.
She can understand the community wanting it.
And she doesn’t think that vigilantism is a problem.
She said
the facts are only 10% of sex offenders are ever known to authorities.
She said 90% of sex offenders are living right now in our streets, attending our barbeques, swimming in our pools, and looking after our children.
She said that if this was a serious proposal, we would be looking at child safety programs, adult education programs, harsher sentencing, and keeping these dangerous sex offenders behind bars – not on lists – behind bars.
Hetty doesn’t believe all the states and territories will come on board with the proposal anyway.
She also says that if we were serious about helping the children, we would have a Royal Commission into the Family Law system that keeps putting children with their sex abusing fathers, (and sometimes mothers), and sex abusing families. We know these children are being abused, the police know it, the courts know it ….
"What we want is for people to be released from jail only if they have a very low risk of reoffending, and those people to be monitored properly. That is what child protection is really about."
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The Australian - January 9, 2019
(AAP Video/Warren Barnsley)