Children being abused in detention

[Black Orchid]

A royal commission should be established to examine the impact on hundreds of children of being detained for long periods in immigration detention centres, a report prepared by the Australian Human Rights Commission inquiry has recommended.

The report, The Forgotten Children, has also called for all children to be released from mainland detention and from the detention centre on Nauru after examining hundreds cases of assault against children, including and more than 30 incidences of sexual assault.

It was tabled late on Wednesday night - the last possible day it could be tabled - after being handed to the Abbott government on November 11.

The damning report is the largest survey of children in detention ever conducted anywhere in the world. It calls for 119 children on Nauru to be removed into the Australian community; for Christmas Island to be shut down; and for an independent guardian for unaccompanied children.

It alleges human rights violations and says children being detained indefinitely on Nauru are "suffering from extreme levels of physical, emotional, psychological and developmental distress".

The reports says that the royal commission would examine "the use of force by the Commonwealth against children in detention and allegations of sexual assault against these children".

It would also consider remedies for a "breach of the Commonwealth's duty of care to detain children".

Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said the abuse had to end. "No longer can we turn a blind eye to the sexual, physical and psychological abuse that these policies of indefinite detention are inflicting on children," she said.

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The number of children in mainland detention centres has fallen from a peak of nearly 2000 in July 2013 to less than 200.

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It's a shocking thing but who is sexually and physically abusing these children? The parents? Other detainees?

If Hanson-Young had her way the perpetrators would all be let out into our suburbs to rape and sexually abuse children in the general community whilst also demanding they be paid compensation.

It's a hard situation but blaming the Commonwealth and suing the government instead of immediately deporting the perpetrators who are inflicting this heinous abuse on children is pathetic.

[Rorschach]

Hanson-dumb is so dumb she doesn't realise her foot is firmly lodged in her mouth.

[Dame Pansi]

Did any of you light a candle #LightTheDark @Twitter in memory of Reza last night?

A great response from all over Australia.

RIP Reza, we were supposed to save you, not kill you.

[Rorschach]

No.... why would I why? Why would anyone who doesn't know him, wasn't related to him, or is not performing some sort of religious adherence?????

[Neferti]

Did any of you light a candle #LightTheDark @Twitter in memory of Reza last night?

A great response from all over Australia.

RIP Reza, we were supposed to save you, not kill you.

I don't do Twitter or Facebook. In any case, who was Reza?

[Rorschach]

Not a child.... and an illegal boat person.

[Neferti]

Not a child.... and an illegal boat person.

Thanks. Why would we light a candle for him?

[5.56 NATO]

We shouldn't he was a shit stirring fluffy bunny that got what he deserved , another Monis in the making.

[Dame Pansi]

Murdered whilst in the care of our government.

The flame of justice keeps flickering on, despite those who try to put it out. For Reza Barati.

[Neferti]

Pansi, if language upsets you, there is no filter here.

I have no idea who Reza is/was. Sorry for your loss.