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.

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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…