For many people, and especially Aboriginal people, talking about sexual abuse is considered shameful. Since colonisation, Aboriginal children and girls have been vulnerable to rape and sexual abuse. According to UN Women, one in every three Indigenous women and girls is estimated to have been a victim of rape in her life.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse took evidence from Aboriginal people across Australia about their experiences of institutional child sexual assault. Only a few of the accounts of abuse given to the commission by Aboriginal people have resulted in police laying charges.
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