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News Corp’s child sexual offender list is a bad, not ‘especially effective’ idea, experts say
Top Stories Tamfitronics The Advertiser this week launched its “second annual” database ofchild sexual offenderspromising a regularly updated chart that “includes the names, ages, suburbs, offences and sentences of convicted offenders, provided all of that information is in the public arena and not suppressed”, in response to “mounting” support “for a national and publicly accessible sexual offenders register”. The campaign is backed by actor and abuse survivor Madeleine West, who told the paper that some of her abuser’s crimes predated her own experience and some were in other jurisdictions.“Were there a statewide public register, which was connected to a national register, it would have prevented me from being abused,” West said. Do registers protect potential victims?Professor Michael Salter, director of Childlight at the University of New South Wales, said evidence that “public naming and...
