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Bradyn Dillon inquest told ACT child protection system operating in same conditions as at the time of his death
Four years after the murder of Canberra boy Bradyn Dillon, the ACT’s child protection services are still understaffed, overworked, and behind on paper work, an inquest has heard.
Key points:
- An inquest into the 2016 murder of nine-year-old Bradyn Dillon has heard the conditions within child protection services are largely unchanged
- A child protection worker says services are understaffed, full of inexperienced workers and weeks behind on cases
- The worker, who became overwhelmed with emotion during the inquest, was reminded by the coroner it was Bradyn’s father to blame for his death, not case workers
Bradyn was nine years old when his father Graham Dillon beat him to death in 2016 after weeks of violent abuse.
Dillon is now serving more than…
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