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Coroner refers possible rapes and girl’s ‘suspicious’ remote community death back to NT Police, DPP
The Northern Territory coroner has referred the death of a teenage girl and the possible assaults of two others before they died back to police and prosecutors, saying he believes offences may have been committed.
Warning: This story contains details which may be distressing for some readers.
Key points:
- The coroner probed the deaths of six young people in remote communities in recent joint inquests
- He found “blindness” and “indifference” on the part of government agencies
- Some of the material has now been referred back to police and prosecutors
The referrals came along with findings that “blindness” and “indifference” on the part of government agencies before the deaths of six young people, in different remote communities, whose deaths…
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