Abuse in a hospital ward: Victorian survivor fears for safety of children visiting patients
Riley* alleges her father frequently sexually and physically abused her while he was in hospital. Experts say more should be done to protect visitors
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Riley* was in her early 30s when she began combing through her late father’s medical records, searching for answers about a heart attack he suffered almost two decades earlier.
Instead she found evidence of the years of violence he inflicted on her when she was a teenager visiting him in hospital in the mid-1990s. Some of it had been documented by hospital staff from the beginning.
Law (Australia) | The Guardian
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